When Russia invaded Ukraine, the EU opened its borders to allow the transportation of grain and aid. The resulting competition has driven down Polish haulers' profits. Now they're taking matters into their own hands.
Several dozen owners of transport companies on Monday blocked three major Polish border crossings with Ukraine to protest what they say is unfair competition from the neighbouring country's businesses."Their costs of servicing a truck, hiring a driver or merely of opening a business or paying social insurance are much lower," Marek Oklinski, a transport company owner, told AFP in Dorohusk.
Several dozen owners of transport companies on Monday blocked three major Polish border crossings with Ukraine to protest what they say is unfair competition from the neighbouring country s businesses.
sThe trucks lined up with the protesters blocked almost all road traffic, and they attributed the drop in their income to the liberalization of EU border
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