The Moldovan carriers will be able to use the authorizations that were to be issued as of October 1, 2020 ahead of time. This way, the 4,000 authorizations planned for the fourth quarter of this year could be used in September. Such an agreement was reached by the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure of Moldova with representatives of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, IPN reports.

Under the agreements concluded in the meeting of the joint Moldovan-Russian commission for international road transport of November 6, 2019, this year the Republic of Moldova is to use 16,000 authorizations - 8,000 in the first half and by 4,000 in the last two quarters.

However, the quota of 8,000 freight transport authorizations provided by Russia for the first half of this year was used by the end of May and the carriers risked being unable to supply goods to the Russian market.

Following approaches made by the Ministry of Economy, the Russian counterparts accepted to issue authorizations beforehand.

The quota of transport authorizations is annually negotiated by Moldova and Russia within the meetings of joint commissions. The Russian authorities increased the number of authorizations, from 15,000 in 2019 to 16,000 in 2020.

According to the Ministry of Economy, bilateral freighter transport in the first half of 2020 totaled about 357,000 tonnes.