According to TASS, during a working meeting with the Russian leader, he explained his request by the fact that queues formed for the existing ships due to the situation with restrictions on land transit of goods through Lithuania.
“We started the year with two ferries on the line between Baltiysk and Ust-Luga, now there are eight ships on the line.
But we have already formed queues for these ferries, and therefore I would like to ask you to give instructions to the Ministry of Transport.
There are free capacities, including in the Black Sea, in other basins, to relocate ferries and bulk carriers here,” Alikhanov said.
Earlier, the head of Lithuanian Railways, Egidijus Lazauskas, said that the company received an advance payment of €2.5 million for the transit of goods to the Kaliningrad region.