{"id":527662,"date":"2026-03-23T11:29:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=527662"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:11:50","slug":"belarusian-customs-announces-start-of-return-of-lithuanian-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-customs-announces-start-of-return-of-lithuanian-trucks","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Customs Announces Start of Return of Lithuanian Trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The State Customs Committee of Belarus has announced the start of the return of Lithuanian trucks that have been held at special parking sites since November last year.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, on Friday <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-says-lithuania-registered-trucks-will-start-being-returned-on-monday\">said<\/a> that the return process would begin on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the committee, Lukashenka reviewed appeals from Lithuanian and Polish transport companies and <i>&#8220;made a decision to allow the departure of freight vehicles with Lithuanian registration.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;At present, more than 1,900 vehicles are located at specially equipped sites, including tractor units, trailers, and semi-trailers,&#8221;<\/i> the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicles will be allowed to leave Belarus via the Lithuanian direction. At the same time, trucks with Lithuanian registration but \u0444\u0430\u043a\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438 owned by Polish companies will also be able to exit via the Polish direction.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Customs authorities have begun work. As carriers pay for storage \u2014 now several times lower than previously set \u2014 vehicles will be able to depart.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The \u0434\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0435\u0439\u0448\u0430\u044f speed of border crossing depends on the actions of the Lithuanian side. Today, the State Customs Committee sent a proposal to the Lithuanian customs service to increase the throughput of trucks,&#8221;<\/i> the committee added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Customs Committee of Belarus has announced the start of the return of Lithuanian trucks that have been held at special parking sites since November last year. As a reminder, on Friday Alyaksandr Lukashenka said that the return process would begin on Monday. According to the committee, Lukashenka reviewed appeals from Lithuanian and Polish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":527661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c103db21f9b.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Customs Announces Start of Return of Lithuanian Trucks"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-527662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}