Lithuania’s state-run railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LTG) supports the idea of completely stopping handling freight from Belarus and Russia, in case there is no other way to sort out sanctioned goods.
“We support this direction. We don’t want to work with risky customers and we don’t want to get money at any price,” Egidijus Lazauskas, the company’s CEO, said on Wednesday.
“We are well aware of all the risks, and it is our main priority to get as far away from these markets as possible,” he told reporters at the Kena railway station.
However, a complete withdrawal from the Russian and Belarusian markets would only be possible if LTG was unable to control shipments of sanctioned goods to Lithuania, according to Lazauskas.
“Such a scenario is possible if [...] the numbers continue to escalate and increase. If we saw that we could not physically catch up with them with our systems, it would naturally be easier to completely dam this river,” the CEO said.
“For now, we have enough instruments, competences and tools to ensure that nobody tries to transport these goods,” he added.
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