Commercial road traffic from Russia ends

Commercial road traffic from Russia ended early Saturday following the new sanctions imposed by the European Union on Friday on Russia and Belarus, said Finnish Customs in a press release.

The EU has imposed new sanctions due to Russia´s attack on Ukraine.

The sanctions ended all road traffic carrying commercial goods as concerns vehicles registered in Russia or Belarus.

As the implementing authority, Finnish Customs' tasks include enforcing the sanctions on goods traffic agreed at EU level.

Based on the new sanctions, all road traffic carrying commercial goods from Russia will ended at 0.00 on Saturday.

After that time, Finnish Customs will turn back all commercial transports in vehicles registered in Russia and Belarus. According to the sanctions, the starting time of transports is of no significance.

Transports from Finland or other EU countries are allowed within a transitional period.