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Zabaikalsk border-crossing station needs modernisation - governor
ULAN-UDE, January 14 (Itar-Tass) - The Zabaikalsk international car
border-crossing station should be modernised, Transbaikalia's Governor
Ravil Geniatulin said on Friday.
"We have entered the second decade of the XXI century, and
technologies are changing, including those for the customs, and that is
why it is necessary to answer the requirements of the time, especially
because the interest to Asia's markets is growing and our border region
has an important transit function," he said.
The governor chaired a meeting of the regional government on the work
of the Chita, Zabaikalye and East-Siberian customs. The main reason of
delays in checking individuals and processing of cargo, which increase
waiting times to several hours, is that the Zabaikalsk border-crossing
station does not answer the modern requirements, he said. The project of
the border-crossing station was designed in the 80s of the past century,
and the reconstruction, which started in 2008, drags on till now. The
meeting will make decisions on how to speed up the reconstruction works.
The Zabaikalsk station was criticised several times late past year.
Several meetings of various authorities discussed how to make the station
work without long lines. The station was opened twenty years earlier, and
its capacity was 20,000 individuals a year, but the number of those who
crossed the border there over 2008 exceeded two million. Experts say that
the long lines at the Russia-China border from the Russian side originate
not from objective reasons only. Among the problems mentioned there is
badly managed system of the customs control, low cultural level of the
staff.
Border guards and customs officers pay attention to the fact that only
ten percent of those who cross the border are tourists. About 80 percent
are those, known as shuttles /private entrepreneurs who import wholesale
goods/. The staff has to inspect them thoroughly to prevent smuggling.
Last autumn, the border-crossing station had to cancel the green corridor
/areas of simplified customs control/. In order to get rid of the jams at
the border, the management suggests dividing the transport flow into
separate streams for cargo, buses and cars. Besides, the staff will have
to stop "fighting with the shuttles", to work out modern forms to control
the business, and to resume the green corridor.
-0-kar/gor
border-crossing station should be modernised, Transbaikalia's Governor
Ravil Geniatulin said on Friday.
"We have entered the second decade of the XXI century, and
technologies are changing, including those for the customs, and that is
why it is necessary to answer the requirements of the time, especially
because the interest to Asia's markets is growing and our border region
has an important transit function," he said.
The governor chaired a meeting of the regional government on the work
of the Chita, Zabaikalye and East-Siberian customs. The main reason of
delays in checking individuals and processing of cargo, which increase
waiting times to several hours, is that the Zabaikalsk border-crossing
station does not answer the modern requirements, he said. The project of
the border-crossing station was designed in the 80s of the past century,
and the reconstruction, which started in 2008, drags on till now. The
meeting will make decisions on how to speed up the reconstruction works.
The Zabaikalsk station was criticised several times late past year.
Several meetings of various authorities discussed how to make the station
work without long lines. The station was opened twenty years earlier, and
its capacity was 20,000 individuals a year, but the number of those who
crossed the border there over 2008 exceeded two million. Experts say that
the long lines at the Russia-China border from the Russian side originate
not from objective reasons only. Among the problems mentioned there is
badly managed system of the customs control, low cultural level of the
staff.
Border guards and customs officers pay attention to the fact that only
ten percent of those who cross the border are tourists. About 80 percent
are those, known as shuttles /private entrepreneurs who import wholesale
goods/. The staff has to inspect them thoroughly to prevent smuggling.
Last autumn, the border-crossing station had to cancel the green corridor
/areas of simplified customs control/. In order to get rid of the jams at
the border, the management suggests dividing the transport flow into
separate streams for cargo, buses and cars. Besides, the staff will have
to stop "fighting with the shuttles", to work out modern forms to control
the business, and to resume the green corridor.
-0-kar/gor
