A new permanent customs control area is necessary in the municipality of Chisinau. This would reduce the pressure on frontier posts where 98% of all the export operations are performed and would ease trucks flow at internal customs posts where most of the import customs declarations are submitted. An online meeting centered on the foreign partners’ readiness to help the Customs Service build a new customs control area, IPN reports, quoting a press release of the Service.

In the discussions with representatives of the European Investment Bank and the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Moldova, the interlocutors underlined the importance of transferring clearance operations from frontier posts to customs terminals as this will enable the Customs Service to focus more on the facilitation of international trade and combating of fraud.

“The motor terminal is to have customs warehouses, temporary storage facilities, ramps for the customs control of trucks, parking places, sufficient access ways and other infrastructure elements,” runs the press release.

The sides expressed their willingness to continue the dialogue and to examine eventual cooperation opportunities so as to implement the discussed project.