Cross-border transport will be sped up at Hungary-Ukraine border

Top officials of the customs and border control authorities of Hungary and Ukraine and representatives of freight carriers met to discuss speeding up cross-border transport in Záhony on Tuesday, Hungary’s tax and customs office NAV said.

The meeting was initiated by NAV in the framework of an agreement concluded in 2011 on accelerating cross-border passenger and cargo traffic, NAV said in a statement.

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The participants reviewed results achieved so far thanks to the measures, NAV said, noting a 3 percent increase last year in the number of freight carriers crossing the border daily at Záhony from Ukraine compared with 2019.

At the Beregsurány border crossing station, the increase was 130 percent during the same period, NAV said.

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Source: MTI