BORDER TROUBLES * Finland/Russia - Line of vehicles waiting at border extends 42 km

The lines of vehicles are 42 kilometres long at the Hamina-Vaalimaa section and 23 kilometres in the direction of Nuijamaa.


Helsinki,Finland -Itar/Tass -December 21, 2007: -- Kilometres-long lines are formed at the Russian-Finnish border. There are lines in the direction of Imatra as well... Finns fear that accumulations of trucks may reach the third ring road around Helsinki and Vantaa in the capital's suburbs... Parking grounds near all the border stations are packed... The government also studies possibilities to impose payment for Russian cargo transporters for the use of roads. There is no decision yet on a form of payment. Finnish politicians believe, since transport bound for Russia accounts for 90-95 percent of the traffic, Russian companies may participate in the Finnish road infrastructure development... Prime Minister (Finland) Matti Vanhanen connects the problem of long lines at the border first of all with the growth of bilateral trade volumes. Over a few years, the number of cargo trucks at the border doubled to nearly one million units, he noted... Russia takes measures to increase the staff of customers and use electronic declaration technologies at the customs to considerably shorten the customs procedures time... (Video from YouTube, by NiclasM4S -May 28, 2007: -- "Russian Trucks Techno " A 30 km (at least) line with russian trucks waiting for cross the border to Russia. How many? Maybe 1000 of them. On the clip is just maximum 5% of them all. Music is from Basshunter)