Real-time data aggregated by the private portal KolejkaNaGranicy.pl show that congestion on Poland’s external border with Belarus reached a new high at 15:10 CET on 22 September. Trucks attempting to enter Poland through Koroszczyn–Kozlovichi faced an estimated 32 hours 55 minutes of waiting, while passenger cars reported delays of more than two hours. The same crossing also registered the worst outbound queue, with 2 hours 25 minutes to leave Poland. The spike follows Belarus’s decision last week to divert additional freight traffic through this route after scheduled maintenance works began on the Brest–Terespol rail corridor. Polish Customs officials say staffing levels were increased by 15 percent on Monday but admit that the layout of the terminal limits throughput. Carrier associations complain that a single delay at Koroszczyn ripples across supply chains serving the Port of Gdańsk and automotive plants in Silesia. Elsewhere, waits at Ukraine’s Dorohusk–Yagodyn crossing remained moderate at around 15 minutes, while the German and Lithuanian frontiers operated below 40 minutes for most categories of traffic. The data set, which draws on Border Guard sensors, crowdsourced driver reports and neighbouring countries’ customs feeds, is now widely used by dispatchers and relocation companies to recalibrate routing in real time. Business-travel managers are advised to reroute staff via the Bobrowniki–Berestovitsa checkpoint, which has maintained sub-hour waits, or consider air freight for high-value cargo until the backlog clears. Experts note that Poland’s forthcoming Entry/Exit System (EES) kiosks, now being piloted at the Belarusian border, could speed processing by 15–20 percent once fully operational, but that benefit will not be felt until at least November.
Source: KolejkaNaGranicy.pl
