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Apr 07, 2010 (newstodate): Like in Estonia, forwarders in Finland are seeing huge problems with the voluminous traffic of ex-China exports to Russia via third countries.
-After having discovered cases of fraud with illegal imports of copy commodities, the Russian customs have put an embargo on the import from Finland of some types of Chinese cargo destined for Russian consignees, says Marjo Engvist, Geodis Wilson Finland.
-The Russian customs now maintain that cargo from China to Russia should cross the borders directly between the two countries, rather than going via third-countries, and this has significantly complicated this traffic via Helsinki Airport.
-We are thus seeing volumes down as for large shipments by freighters, while certain smaller shipments carried on passenger aircraft and trucked from Helsinki may still be allowed into Russia.
-Russian customs at St Petersburg have closed down this traffic entirely for weeks now, and we also saw customs at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport changing their procedures last month already. We expect the Russian Customs to work out entirely new procedures altogether, and we will have to wait for this before we can know how this traffic will proceed, says Ms Enqvist.
-After having discovered cases of fraud with illegal imports of copy commodities, the Russian customs have put an embargo on the import from Finland of some types of Chinese cargo destined for Russian consignees, says Marjo Engvist, Geodis Wilson Finland.
-The Russian customs now maintain that cargo from China to Russia should cross the borders directly between the two countries, rather than going via third-countries, and this has significantly complicated this traffic via Helsinki Airport.
-We are thus seeing volumes down as for large shipments by freighters, while certain smaller shipments carried on passenger aircraft and trucked from Helsinki may still be allowed into Russia.
-Russian customs at St Petersburg have closed down this traffic entirely for weeks now, and we also saw customs at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport changing their procedures last month already. We expect the Russian Customs to work out entirely new procedures altogether, and we will have to wait for this before we can know how this traffic will proceed, says Ms Enqvist.