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Transportation Volumes Grow
In 2006 the foreign trade turnover of Russia amounted to USD 749 bln, including USD 217 bln of import and USD 532 bln of export. The total volume of goods turnover (net weight) increased to 2.1 bln tons during the period. Meanwhile, the total cargo volume, transported as transit via the territory of the Russian Federation, was 14.2 mln tons for the total sum of USD 60 bln. The country’s customs bodies registered 3.7 mln of freight customs declarations, including 2.3 mln declarations for import, and 1.4 mln – for export.

Such results became possible due to the proper and well coordinated work of the service and active development of the transport network. According to experts’ estimations, the length of different means of communication of the Russian transport system at the beginning of 2006 was: 85 thousand kilometers of public railways, 55 thousand kilometers of railways belonging to industrial transport enterprises, 581 thousand kilometers of public motorways (including 531 thousand kilometers of hard-surface ones), 101.6 thousand kilometers of inner waterways, and 600 thousand kilometers of airlines, serviced by a single system of air communication organization. 
In 2006, over 73.5 mln passengers and 32.4 mln tons of freight was transported by the transport modes daily. The commercial cargo turnover of all the transport modes (including industrial railway transport, but excluding the pipeline network) amounted to 2,162.9 bln t/km (3.9% up year-on-year), while the volume of commercial freight transportation was 4,043.2 mln tons (+8.6%). According to the data of the Federal Statistics Service, in 2006 the turnover of transport organizations grew by 22.1% year-on-year to RUR 1,946 bln.

By 2010 the volume of export and import cargo transportation is expected to increase by 30-35% to 645-655 mln tons, including 550-555 mln tons of export freight. Transit cargo transportation is also to grow (approximately threefold) to 58-60 mln tons. As a result, the revenue of Russia from the increase of transport services export may grow by over RUR 150 bln. 
Meanwhile, achievement of the difficult targets the transport sector faces is impossible without close and efficient cooperation with customs and other controlling bodies, responsible for border crossing. 

Your Passport, Please 
Nowadays the efforts made by different state bodies to improve the quality and increase the efficiency of border crossings’ work have started to bear fruits. For example, in April 2007, the RF Federal Customs Service made a decision on setting two mobile inspecting and checking complexes in the Russian-Latvia sector of the state border. They were located on the many-sided border crossings of Burachki (Sebezhskaya customs, North-Western Customs Department) and Ubylinka (Pskovskaya customs, North-Western Customs Department). Such a decision was a reaction of the RF Federal Customs Service top management to the queues that emerged at some road border crossings on the RF-EU border, and the X-ray equipment enables customers to inspect any vehicle without opening its freight section.

Transporters also do their best. According to Oleg Belozerov, Head of the Federal Road Agency (Rosavtodor), the RF Ministry of Transport, Rosavtodor holds large-scaled works to solve the problems at border crossings. To do it, the Agency has developed a plan – schedule of the reconstruction of roads leading to the most crowded border crossings in 2007-2008. «The document envisages reconstruction of the roads, construction of additional traffic lanes, car parks, road surface repair, setting of additional highway markings», said O.Belozerov.

Last year the road bypassing Vyborg (Leningrad region) was put into operation; the construction of a motorway bypassing Sovetsk town (Kaliningrad region) was started. Besides, in the Kaliningrad region, the construction of a motorway bypassing Chernyshevskoye settlement is being completed. This year, it is planned to introduce demarcation strips with the length of 800 m on the Kaliningrad-Mamonovo II motorway near the border crossing. The capital repair of the motoway (5-6 km) will be held on the approach to the Rudnya border crossing. There it is planned to enlarge the road by one traffic lane from each side and transfer the weighing equipment from the main lane to an additional one.

Meanwhile, the most systemic and scaled measure taken by the state bodies was the passportization of border crossing, carried out in 2006 in accordance with Decree № 312 of the RF Government «On Passports of Border Crossings on the State Border of the Russian Federation» from May 27, 2006. In accordance with the decisions of the State Border Committee, the RF Ministry of Transport coordinated passportization of the border crossings. It attracted the RF Federal Agency of River and Sea Transport, the Federal Agency of Air Transport, the Federal Agency of Railway Transport, Federal Inspectorate in the Transport Sector, Federal Fishing Agency, Federal Customs Service, Federal Safety Service and Federal Migration Service, as well as the state inspectorate bodies in the sectors of agriculture, consumer products and communication. 

The prepared by the RF Ministry of Transport list of objects to be passportized included 446 border check points, wherein 190 road ones, 97 sea ones, 76 air ones, 59 railway ones and 24 river ones. Only 384 of them were approved (168 car border crossings, 75 sea ones, 66 air ones, 59 railway ones and 16 river ones). The remaining 62 border crossings were not passportized because no international freight or passenger transportation is provided via them.

«Due to the measures taken, we have managed to obtain reliable data, enabling us to define the state of border crossings; presence of private property on their territory; the intensity of freight and passenger flows there, and other useful information», said Evgeny Moskvichev, Deputy Head of RF Transport Ministry.

Old and Worn 
Due to the analysis of the data received during the passportization, the specialists obtained useful information and revealed a number of problems.

Firstly, most border crossings are in bad need of reconstruction. For example, the approaches to many Russian border crossings do not enable to separate the flows of vehicles to provide a green corridor for empty trucks, buses and cars; there is a lack of car parks for the transport undergoing customs procedures…

The RF Ministry of Transport believes that the reconstruction of border crossings must be financed from the federal budget in the framework of the Federal Target Programme «State Border of the Russian Federation (2003-2010)», and it is necessary to put amendments to it in 2007. However, it is impossible to do it without the Russian Federal Customs Service, which is one of the main customers of the programme. 

In their turn, the top-management of the Russian customs bodies insists that the issues of the state border arrangement should be realized together with the construction of modern warehousing customs and logistic terminals, as well as development of border and transport infrastructure. «Whatever the capacity of customs border crossings is, the lack of any of the mentioned components may cause queues and misbalance of the measures taken by customs bodies and the Ministry of Transport», Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Customs Service Vladimir Malinin is certain. 

On the other hand, the arrangement of border crossings and the territories near them has often little normative and organizational basis. The formation of the system of existing border crossings took a large period of time; it was based on different conceptual approaches, and so it was based on out-of-date normative and legislative acts. For example, over 70% of operating border crossings, located in Russian sea ports and airports, were put into operation long before 1993, when the Law «On the State Border of the Russian Federation» was approved. «The border crossing in the commercial sea port of Novorossiysk works in accordance with the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR from 06.11.1951, and the one in Sheremetyevo airport – with the Decree from 02.03.1960», E.Moskvichev comments on the situation. 

The system of railway and road border crossings was recommenced when the new borders of the Russian Federation were formed (i.e. after the collapse of the Soviet Union), but there was no common order of launching, opening and functioning of border crossings at that time. It was set only in 1998. Meanwhile, neither the Law «On the State Border of the Russian Federation», nor the Decree on Border Crossings via the State Border (Decree № 60 of the RF Government) envisaged that the legislative and normative base was put in accordance with the acting legislation, and that is why the proper legislation was applied to new border crossings and the ones opened after 1998.

The problem of non-functioning or non-required border crossings is especially important today. Based on the results of the passportization, the Federal Customs Service was offered to close 73 road border crossings. Meanwhile, the customs bodies have no right to close them because the road border crossings were set by international agreements between Russia and its neighbouring states. Consequently, to decide the further fate of the border crossings, respective consultations with the states are to be held and amendments are to be put into the agreements. The same thing goes for railway border crossings.

Nowadays many experts are sure that the Government should make the decision in the near future to close the excessive border crossings. However, the Government understands the situation pretty well. «Nowaday there are too many border crossings. We must define which of them we require», stated First Deputy Chairman of the RF Government Sergey Ivanov at one of the meetings. «The most profitable and legally justified border crossings are to be chosen», he stressed.

Officials Have Not Come to an Agreement
On the whole, the RF Government is to make over 100 decisions to open, close or to remove customs check points. However, there are some obstacles to that.

At the end of 2006, a Federal Law on putting amendments to legislation concerning improvement of state control at the state border crossings was approved (№ 266-ФЗ). Its fulfillment envisages adopting some decrees of the RF Government, which are to be prepared by six federal bodies of executive power.

In particular, the RF Ministry of Transport was entrusted to develop some decrees setting the order of defining the limits of border crossings, the list of special check-points and requirements to construction, as well as elaboration of the new edition of the Decree on Border Crossings. However, it turned out that the federal bodies of executive power have different standpoints on the functioning of border crossings, and the officials themselves admit that. 

«The meaning of the limits of a border crossing, and the activities that can be held there do not coincide in the developed by the Transport Ministry project of the Decree «On the Rules of Defining the Limits of Border Crossings», in the developed by the Federal Customs Service project «On the Activities Provided at Border Crossings», and in the project of the Federal Safety Service «On the Order of Setting Rules at Border Crossings», said Evgeny Moskvichev.

In the words of the Deputy Transport Minister, to provide timely introduction of the bills to the RF Government, it is necessary that the work of all the federal bodies of the executive power was coordinated in the frames of specially organized interdepartmental working groups.

Perhaps, it would be reasonable that the Government made a decision on creation of a special federal structure to be in charge of border crossings. The Ministry of Transport maintains that the approval of such a structure launch may be complicated because of many different opinions.

Partly, it is proved by the fact that many of the bills of the RF Government have not been completely approved yet. For example, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade approve the documents on setting border crossings grudgingly if there is no detailed calculation of expenses and financial and economic bases, and the financial resources for the border crossings, which are not included into the Federal Target Programme «State Border of the Russian Federation (2003-2010)», are not mentioned. Thus, there arises a paradox: the demanded calculations of expenses can be made only on the basis of the project documentation, and the basis for project financing is the decision of the RF Government on border crossing setting approved by all the bodies in charge. 

Moreover, the federal bodies of the executive power providing different control at border crossings refuse to adjust the bills of the RF Government, if there is no proper financial provision for staff increase. And it is understandable. «Will you work without accommodation and wages?» – such a rhetorical question was asked in one of the structures.

At Any Price?
Still the problem is to be solved, because the issue is very important. As for the railway transport, even the three-day period for giving permission for transit, envisaged by the Russian legislation (Clause 3, Article 9 of the Customs Code of the RF), and a day spent to complete delivery (Clause 1, Article 92) take 20% of the total time of freight transportation along the Transsib. The situation in the road transport sector is the same. 

«Our analysis has revealed that in 2006 Russian road hauliers’ losses from idling while waiting for entering the check-up zone at the 14 main border crossings increased twofold year-on-year to over RUR 3 bln. And if we calculate the similar losses of foreign road hauliers, the economic damage is about RUR 7-7.5 bln», says Alexander Shershnev, Director of the Department of State Policy in the Sector of Road Facilities, Road and Public Passenger Transport, Geodesy and Cartography, the RF Ministry of Transport.

Transporters believe that the figure should be compared with the sum required to construct a modern check-up system. Then the latter will hardly be considered too large. 

Still, it is obvious that modernization and arrangement of border crossings is not the only problem of the Russian border. «Transporters should not pay for the control provided by the state. I mean the so-called «pseudo -customs» services, provided by some commercial organizations for the «comfort» at freight forwarding and passing border crossings. Customs must stay away from any commerce», claimed First Vice Prime Minister of the RF Government Sergey Ivanov. 

«Yes, there are many problems and we are to solve them. But if the situation were as negative as they say, we would have hardly gather the means we have gathered and transferred to the Budget», contradicts Head of the Federal Customs Service Andrey Belyaninov.

Summing up such different opinions, it is still possible to state that, in spite of all the contradictions, customs and transport hold out hands to each other. Will they shake hands?
 
 


Viewpoint
Sergey Ivanov,
First Deputy Chairman of the RF Government:
– I understand that the arrangement of state border crossings requires significant investments, and - which is more important – time. Still, there is no other way out, and we will have to do it anyway.





Evgeny Moskvichev,
Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation:
– Nowadays, when multimodal transportation develops actively, when logistic technologies are widely used to unite many participants of common international transport chain, we should not pretend that only consignors, consignees and transporters participate in the transportation.
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Transportation Volumes Grow
In 2006 the foreign trade turnover of Russia amounted to USD 749 bln, including USD 217 bln of import and USD 532 bln of export. The total volume of goods turnover (net weight) increased to 2.1 bln tons during the period. Meanwhile, the total cargo volume, transported as transit via the territory of the Russian Federation, was 14.2 mln tons for the total sum of USD 60 bln. The country’s customs bodies registered 3.7 mln of freight customs declarations, including 2.3 mln declarations for import, and 1.4 mln – for export.

Such results became possible due to the proper and well coordinated work of the service and active development of the transport network. According to experts’ estimations, the length of different means of communication of the Russian transport system at the beginning of 2006 was: 85 thousand kilometers of public railways, 55 thousand kilometers of railways belonging to industrial transport enterprises, 581 thousand kilometers of public motorways (including 531 thousand kilometers of hard-surface ones), 101.6 thousand kilometers of inner waterways, and 600 thousand kilometers of airlines, serviced by a single system of air communication organization. 
In 2006, over 73.5 mln passengers and 32.4 mln tons of freight was transported by the transport modes daily. The commercial cargo turnover of all the transport modes (including industrial railway transport, but excluding the pipeline network) amounted to 2,162.9 bln t/km (3.9% up year-on-year), while the volume of commercial freight transportation was 4,043.2 mln tons (+8.6%). According to the data of the Federal Statistics Service, in 2006 the turnover of transport organizations grew by 22.1% year-on-year to RUR 1,946 bln.

By 2010 the volume of export and import cargo transportation is expected to increase by 30-35% to 645-655 mln tons, including 550-555 mln tons of export freight. Transit cargo transportation is also to grow (approximately threefold) to 58-60 mln tons. As a result, the revenue of Russia from the increase of transport services export may grow by over RUR 150 bln. 
Meanwhile, achievement of the difficult targets the transport sector faces is impossible without close and efficient cooperation with customs and other controlling bodies, responsible for border crossing. 

Your Passport, Please 
Nowadays the efforts made by different state bodies to improve the quality and increase the efficiency of border crossings’ work have started to bear fruits. For example, in April 2007, the RF Federal Customs Service made a decision on setting two mobile inspecting and checking complexes in the Russian-Latvia sector of the state border. They were located on the many-sided border crossings of Burachki (Sebezhskaya customs, North-Western Customs Department) and Ubylinka (Pskovskaya customs, North-Western Customs Department). Such a decision was a reaction of the RF Federal Customs Service top management to the queues that emerged at some road border crossings on the RF-EU border, and the X-ray equipment enables customers to inspect any vehicle without opening its freight section.

Transporters also do their best. According to Oleg Belozerov, Head of the Federal Road Agency (Rosavtodor), the RF Ministry of Transport, Rosavtodor holds large-scaled works to solve the problems at border crossings. To do it, the Agency has developed a plan – schedule of the reconstruction of roads leading to the most crowded border crossings in 2007-2008. «The document envisages reconstruction of the roads, construction of additional traffic lanes, car parks, road surface repair, setting of additional highway markings», said O.Belozerov.

Last year the road bypassing Vyborg (Leningrad region) was put into operation; the construction of a motorway bypassing Sovetsk town (Kaliningrad region) was started. Besides, in the Kaliningrad region, the construction of a motorway bypassing Chernyshevskoye settlement is being completed. This year, it is planned to introduce demarcation strips with the length of 800 m on the Kaliningrad-Mamonovo II motorway near the border crossing. The capital repair of the motoway (5-6 km) will be held on the approach to the Rudnya border crossing. There it is planned to enlarge the road by one traffic lane from each side and transfer the weighing equipment from the main lane to an additional one.

Meanwhile, the most systemic and scaled measure taken by the state bodies was the passportization of border crossing, carried out in 2006 in accordance with Decree № 312 of the RF Government «On Passports of Border Crossings on the State Border of the Russian Federation» from May 27, 2006. In accordance with the decisions of the State Border Committee, the RF Ministry of Transport coordinated passportization of the border crossings. It attracted the RF Federal Agency of River and Sea Transport, the Federal Agency of Air Transport, the Federal Agency of Railway Transport, Federal Inspectorate in the Transport Sector, Federal Fishing Agency, Federal Customs Service, Federal Safety Service and Federal Migration Service, as well as the state inspectorate bodies in the sectors of agriculture, consumer products and communication. 

The prepared by the RF Ministry of Transport list of objects to be passportized included 446 border check points, wherein 190 road ones, 97 sea ones, 76 air ones, 59 railway ones and 24 river ones. Only 384 of them were approved (168 car border crossings, 75 sea ones, 66 air ones, 59 railway ones and 16 river ones). The remaining 62 border crossings were not passportized because no international freight or passenger transportation is provided via them.

«Due to the measures taken, we have managed to obtain reliable data, enabling us to define the state of border crossings; presence of private property on their territory; the intensity of freight and passenger flows there, and other useful information», said Evgeny Moskvichev, Deputy Head of RF Transport Ministry.

Old and Worn 
Due to the analysis of the data received during the passportization, the specialists obtained useful information and revealed a number of problems.

Firstly, most border crossings are in bad need of reconstruction. For example, the approaches to many Russian border crossings do not enable to separate the flows of vehicles to provide a green corridor for empty trucks, buses and cars; there is a lack of car parks for the transport undergoing customs procedures…

The RF Ministry of Transport believes that the reconstruction of border crossings must be financed from the federal budget in the framework of the Federal Target Programme «State Border of the Russian Federation (2003-2010)», and it is necessary to put amendments to it in 2007. However, it is impossible to do it without the Russian Federal Customs Service, which is one of the main customers of the programme. 

In their turn, the top-management of the Russian customs bodies insists that the issues of the state border arrangement should be realized together with the construction of modern warehousing customs and logistic terminals, as well as development of border and transport infrastructure. «Whatever the capacity of customs border crossings is, the lack of any of the mentioned components may cause queues and misbalance of the measures taken by customs bodies and the Ministry of Transport», Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Customs Service Vladimir Malinin is certain. 

On the other hand, the arrangement of border crossings and the territories near them has often little normative and organizational basis. The formation of the system of existing border crossings took a large period of time; it was based on different conceptual approaches, and so it was based on out-of-date normative and legislative acts. For example, over 70% of operating border crossings, located in Russian sea ports and airports, were put into operation long before 1993, when the Law «On the State Border of the Russian Federation» was approved. «The border crossing in the commercial sea port of Novorossiysk works in accordance with the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR from 06.11.1951, and the one in Sheremetyevo airport – with the Decree from 02.03.1960», E.Moskvichev comments on the situation. 

The system of railway and road border crossings was recommenced when the new borders of the Russian Federation were formed (i.e. after the collapse of the Soviet Union), but there was no common order of launching, opening and functioning of border crossings at that time. It was set only in 1998. Meanwhile, neither the Law «On the State Border of the Russian Federation», nor the Decree on Border Crossings via the State Border (Decree № 60 of the RF Government) envisaged that the legislative and normative base was put in accordance with the acting legislation, and that is why the proper legislation was applied to new border crossings and the ones opened after 1998.

The problem of non-functioning or non-required border crossings is especially important today. Based on the results of the passportization, the Federal Customs Service was offered to close 73 road border crossings. Meanwhile, the customs bodies have no right to close them because the road border crossings were set by international agreements between Russia and its neighbouring states. Consequently, to decide the further fate of the border crossings, respective consultations with the states are to be held and amendments are to be put into the agreements. The same thing goes for railway border crossings.

Nowadays many experts are sure that the Government should make the decision in the near future to close the excessive border crossings. However, the Government understands the situation pretty well. «Nowaday there are too many border crossings. We must define which of them we require», stated First Deputy Chairman of the RF Government Sergey Ivanov at one of the meetings. «The most profitable and legally justified border crossings are to be chosen», he stressed.

Officials Have Not Come to an Agreement
On the whole, the RF Government is to make over 100 decisions to open, close or to remove customs check points. However, there are some obstacles to that.

At the end of 2006, a Federal Law on putting amendments to legislation concerning improvement of state control at the state border crossings was approved (№ 266-ФЗ). Its fulfillment envisages adopting some decrees of the RF Government, which are to be prepared by six federal bodies of executive power.

In particular, the RF Ministry of Transport was entrusted to develop some decrees setting the order of defining the limits of border crossings, the list of special check-points and requirements to construction, as well as elaboration of the new edition of the Decree on Border Crossings. However, it turned out that the federal bodies of executive power have different standpoints on the functioning of border crossings, and the officials themselves admit that. 

«The meaning of the limits of a border crossing, and the activities that can be held there do not coincide in the developed by the Transport Ministry project of the Decree «On the Rules of Defining the Limits of Border Crossings», in the developed by the Federal Customs Service project «On the Activities Provided at Border Crossings», and in the project of the Federal Safety Service «On the Order of Setting Rules at Border Crossings», said Evgeny Moskvichev.

In the words of the Deputy Transport Minister, to provide timely introduction of the bills to the RF Government, it is necessary that the work of all the federal bodies of the executive power was coordinated in the frames of specially organized interdepartmental working groups.

Perhaps, it would be reasonable that the Government made a decision on creation of a special federal structure to be in charge of border crossings. The Ministry of Transport maintains that the approval of such a structure launch may be complicated because of many different opinions.

Partly, it is proved by the fact that many of the bills of the RF Government have not been completely approved yet. For example, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade approve the documents on setting border crossings grudgingly if there is no detailed calculation of expenses and financial and economic bases, and the financial resources for the border crossings, which are not included into the Federal Target Programme «State Border of the Russian Federation (2003-2010)», are not mentioned. Thus, there arises a paradox: the demanded calculations of expenses can be made only on the basis of the project documentation, and the basis for project financing is the decision of the RF Government on border crossing setting approved by all the bodies in charge. 

Moreover, the federal bodies of the executive power providing different control at border crossings refuse to adjust the bills of the RF Government, if there is no proper financial provision for staff increase. And it is understandable. «Will you work without accommodation and wages?» – such a rhetorical question was asked in one of the structures.

At Any Price?
Still the problem is to be solved, because the issue is very important. As for the railway transport, even the three-day period for giving permission for transit, envisaged by the Russian legislation (Clause 3, Article 9 of the Customs Code of the RF), and a day spent to complete delivery (Clause 1, Article 92) take 20% of the total time of freight transportation along the Transsib. The situation in the road transport sector is the same. 

«Our analysis has revealed that in 2006 Russian road hauliers’ losses from idling while waiting for entering the check-up zone at the 14 main border crossings increased twofold year-on-year to over RUR 3 bln. And if we calculate the similar losses of foreign road hauliers, the economic damage is about RUR 7-7.5 bln», says Alexander Shershnev, Director of the Department of State Policy in the Sector of Road Facilities, Road and Public Passenger Transport, Geodesy and Cartography, the RF Ministry of Transport.

Transporters believe that the figure should be compared with the sum required to construct a modern check-up system. Then the latter will hardly be considered too large. 

Still, it is obvious that modernization and arrangement of border crossings is not the only problem of the Russian border. «Transporters should not pay for the control provided by the state. I mean the so-called «pseudo -customs» services, provided by some commercial organizations for the «comfort» at freight forwarding and passing border crossings. Customs must stay away from any commerce», claimed First Vice Prime Minister of the RF Government Sergey Ivanov. 

«Yes, there are many problems and we are to solve them. But if the situation were as negative as they say, we would have hardly gather the means we have gathered and transferred to the Budget», contradicts Head of the Federal Customs Service Andrey Belyaninov.

Summing up such different opinions, it is still possible to state that, in spite of all the contradictions, customs and transport hold out hands to each other. Will they shake hands?
 
 


Viewpoint
Sergey Ivanov,
First Deputy Chairman of the RF Government:
– I understand that the arrangement of state border crossings requires significant investments, and - which is more important – time. Still, there is no other way out, and we will have to do it anyway.





Evgeny Moskvichev,
Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation:
– Nowadays, when multimodal transportation develops actively, when logistic technologies are widely used to unite many participants of common international transport chain, we should not pretend that only consignors, consignees and transporters participate in the transportation.
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