News / EU member states pressed to open cargo green lanes at border crossings

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In an effort to avert lengthy truck queues, the EC yesterday unveiled a new guide for member states to implement ’green lanes’ for freight at EU borders.

As member states last week scrambled to check the spread of coronavirus by limiting border crossings, huge queues of road freight traffic – particularly at eastern borders – began to build up.

According to real-time shipment visibility platform Sixfold, which has built a dynamic border waiting time map of the continent, at one point last ...