Real-time data published at 15:16 CET on 27 September by the queue-monitoring portal KolejkaNaGranicy show that trucks entering Poland at the Koroszczyn–Kozłowiczy crossing (A2/E30 corridor) faced a staggering 51 hours 05 minutes of waiting time. Passenger-car lanes remained fluid, but commercial traffic was severely congested, with nearly three kilometres of stationary heavy goods vehicles on the Belarusian side. The bottleneck coincides with the continued re-introduction of temporary controls on Poland’s land borders with Belarus and Lithuania, first imposed in early 2024 and successively extended. Officials conduct full Schengen-code inspections of drivers, cargo manifests and vehicle security seals, which logistics operators say now add an average of four hours per truck. A spokesman for the Polish Chamber of Road Transport warns that prolonged queues are pushing haulage costs up by 12–15 %, as firms must pay drivers overtime and reschedule onward deliveries. Delays also have knock-on effects on just-in-time supply chains feeding Poland’s automotive plants in Poznań and Silesia. Several Tier-1 suppliers told Global Mobility News they have diverted urgent consignments through the less busy Terespol–Brest rail terminal or, at considerable expense, flown critical parts into Warsaw Chopin Airport. For business travellers moving between Poland and Belarus, the queues mean that appointments near the border can no longer be planned on the basis of historical driving times. Mobility managers should build at least 24–36 hours of buffer into itineraries for freight-accompanied engineers or service technicians and consider alternative routes via Lithuania or air links to Minsk. Longer term, the Ministry of the Interior is evaluating an e-booking system, similar to that used on the Poland–Ukraine frontier, which would give carriers specific time slots. However, officials caution that the pilot is unlikely to start before Q2 2027, leaving companies to grapple with volatile crossing times throughout the coming winter peak.
Source: KolejkaNaGranicy
