Drivers and logistics companies moving goods into or out of Poland faced exceptional delays on Friday, 23 October, with live data from the crowdsourced platform KolejkaNaGranicy showing the longest queues of the autumn so far. At 12:17 CET, passenger-car traffic entering Poland via the minor Malhowice–Nyzhankovychi crossing (Podkarpackie voivodeship) reached 10 hours 15 minutes; lorry drivers leaving Poland through the same point reported more than five hours in line. Other hotspots included Koroszczyn–Kozlovichi on the Belarusian route, where articulated trucks waited over three hours to exit, and Medyka–Shehyni, where car traffic into Poland exceeded nine hours. The spikes are the combined result of seasonal produce exports, tightened Ukrainian security checks following recent drone strikes, and continuing EU-level border-control derogations along Poland’s frontiers with Germany and Lithuania. Hauliers say driver hours and just-in-time supply chains are suffering: “Every extra hour in the queue costs roughly €80 in wages, fuel and refrigeration,” estimates Piotr Biernacki of Sped-Trans Rzeszów. Although the Border Guard operates an e-queue system for trucks at the major Koroszczyn terminal, many secondary posts still rely on paper manifests. Forwarders are therefore advising shippers to prioritise the Dorohusk–Yahodyn crossing—today’s fastest, at just 15 minutes in both directions—or to reroute via Slovakia or Hungary if shipments are time-sensitive. For corporates with Poland-based plants, the message is clear: build a 24- to 48-hour buffer into inbound component deliveries this week and warn travelling staff that private cars could face lengthy waits, especially outside the 01:00-05:00 window when traffic typically subsides.
Source: KolejkaNaGranicy.pl
