EU – Baltic States, Transport, Truck haulage

This has been indicated in the TM informative report, heard by the government today. The charge will apply to foreign heavy goods vehicles and those vehicles from Latvia on international routes. For lorries performing only inland transportation, a charge of LVL 281 will apply, that will have to be paid once per year.

TM prognosticates that the total revenue from the road congestion charge could amount to LVL 10 million per year. The funds gained will be used for developing road infrastructure, as well as for construction and maintenance of parking lots in the frontier zone and for ensuring the traffic organization. The parking lots will be owned by the country.

It is planned to put in order the frontier zone infrastructure before 2010 by expanding the border checkpoints, developing parking lots and reconstructing the highway stretch Ludza-Terehova.