Chamber of Commerce: "About 50 trucks from Serbia stranded on borders, we are doing everything to help them"

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"The Serbian Chamber of Commerce, the Serbian Embassy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are doing everything to help truck drivers whose vehicles have Serbian license plates, who are stranded on Ukraine's border crossings with Hungary, Romania and Poland," the PKS director for Strategic Analysis, Services and Internationalization Sector, Mihailo Vesovic, said this morning.

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According to him, it is estimated that there are about 100 stranded trucks from Serbia in Ukraine, of which about 50 are on border crossings.

Vesovic recalled that Ukrainian border authorities are not allowing trucks with Russian and Belarusian goods to cross the country's border, and added that "depending on the crossing, Ukrainians do not allow vehicles transporting goods from other countries, as is the case with trucks with Serbian goods on the border with Romania."

"Most trucks are on the Romanian border, then we have four trucks on the Hungarian border and four trucks on the Polish border," Vesovic specified for TV Prva and stressed that "truckers cannot be expected to leave their vehicles and jobs and cross the border, nor is it possible."

He explained that due to the situation in Ukraine, it is not possible to get in touch with anyone in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of that country, because people "work from home or are in exile."

"Two trucks crossed the Hungarian border today and two crossed the Romanian border. There are about 20,000 to 30,000 refugees at the borders, who are a priority, and each truck requires up to two hours of customs clearance, and even if the situation at the border crossings normalizes, there would be a lot of waiting and delays," he explained.

When it comes to the economic situation in light of the conflict in Ukraine, Vesovic said that the energy crisis already existed due to the two-year pandemic, and that additional inflationary pressure and a jump in energy prices on the world market can now be expected.

He touched on the situation in our country and said that the Government made a decision not to increase prices in the food industry, which, he said, is "sustainable for a while, but not in the long run, because resources are being drawn from commodity reserves."

"What is good is that 80 percent of food in our stores is of domestic origin. We do not depend on broken logistics chains. We will not have a problem in terms of shortages, we'll see how prices will be balanced," said Vesovic.

When asked about the possible increase in the price of grains and bread due to the Ukrainian crisis, Vesovic stated that Serbia produces 3.3 million tons of wheat a year, and that the domestic market needs 1.6 million tons of this grain, so there is no reason to worry there.

(Telegraf Biznis)