The regional authorities were preparing for possible "nasty things from the neighbors," he said.
“The Ministry of Transport and I redeployed another dry cargo ship from other seas, which runs on the Ust-Luga-Baltiysk line in order to redistribute goods prohibited by the Lithuanians for transit.
We may need additional vessels.
We calculated the maximum volume of these vessels.
These are seven additional vessels by the end of the year, they are in the Baltic, with some companies, I will not name them yet, they have worked.
We are holding a meeting with them on Monday, and they are ready to provide us with conditions within a week or five days and put them on the line,” Alikhanov said in a video message.
On June 17, Lithuanian Railways notified the Kaliningrad Railway that they would stop the transit of a number of sanctioned goods from June 18.
Alikhanov said that the regional authorities consider this a flagrant violation of the protocols for the accession to the EU of the Baltic states and the rules of free transit.
The governor stressed that these actions are illegal and may have far-reaching consequences for both Lithuania and the European Union.