Live data from traffic-monitoring portal KolejkaNaGranicy.pl show unprecedented congestion at the Koroszczyn–Kozlovichi truck corridor on the Poland–Belarus border. At 15:59 CEST on 28 September, inbound freight vehicles faced an estimated 62 hours and 25 minutes to enter Poland, while the outbound queue stretched 2 hours 35 minutes. Koroszczyn is the main gateway for road freight arriving from Russia and Belarus via the E30 corridor. Hauliers attribute the bottleneck to intensified Polish customs inspections, Belarusian harvest-season exports and a surge in EU-bound consignments rerouted from the still-closed Bobrowniki crossing. Driver-submitted reports corroborate wait times exceeding two nights, forcing many to sleep in cabs without guaranteed access to sanitation facilities. The jam is cascading into logistics schedules for automotive components and FMCG goods destined for factories in the Łódź and Wielkopolska regions. Freight forwarders now advise clients to divert via Kuźnica or to split loads through combined rail-road options at the Brest-Małaszewicze dry port. Time-sensitive shipments, including pharmaceuticals, should consider airfreight from Minsk National Airport via third-country hubs. Passenger vehicles are only marginally affected, but business travellers driving rental cars from Minsk to Warsaw should carry provisions and plan alternate meeting times. Polish authorities have deployed additional customs officers yet caution that queues are unlikely to normalise until after the long weekend in early October, when export volumes typically drop. The episode is a reminder that geopolitical frictions on the EU’s eastern flank can translate into sudden operational risks for supply chains. Mobility and logistics managers should enrol drivers in real-time queue-alert apps and maintain contingency routings through Lithuania or Ukraine when feasible.
Source: KolejkaNaGranicy.pl
