The Employers Association of Carriers and Auxiliary Services asks the Government and the National Extraordinary Commission for Public Health to annul the decision to suspend the international regular, special regular, occasional and taxi road passenger transport services until June 30, IPN reports.
In a press release, the carriers say that the state of emergency declared in Moldova in connection with the novel coronavirus lasted for two months, until May 15. The maintaining of the international transport restrictions after the state of emergency for an additional period of a month and a half goes beyond any logical and legal limit, generates only difficulties and will inevitably lead to the collapse of the transport system and the bankruptcy of the legal entities working in the sector.
According to the Association’s findings, before the pandemic 70% of the passenger transport was operated by illegal ways. Now this figure stands at 99% of the volume of international road transport.
The carriers consider that persons from the administration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, the Border Police and other institutions are involved in the schemes to promote illegal routes that weren’t authorized by the Commission for Exceptional Situations. They intend to ask for state budget compensations for the losses sustained by international carriers because they haven’t worked for over two months.
