Carriers warned of an increase in prices for freight transportation due to fuel shortages - Kommersant

Russian carriers have begun sending out notifications to customers about increasing prices for cargo transportation due to the fuel crisis. Kommersant writes about this with reference to representatives of logistics companies.

“Today we received notification from our fellow road carriers about an increase in tariffs: from July 1, they announced an increase of at least 10%. I can assume that this is not the limit,” said Sigma co-founder Tatyana Patuzhnaya. The founder of VIG Trans, Igor Rebelsky, said that some companies operating in the international transportation segment have already increased prices by about 5%.

The worst situation, according to entrepreneurs, is in the annexed Crimea, regions in the south of Russia, and Siberia. The cost of road freight transportation from China has increased by an average of $700 per flight, said the head of the Optimalog company, Georgiy Vlastopulo. According to him, delivery times have increased, and the average daily mileage of trucks has decreased from 600–700 km per day to 500 km.

Pontis Expedition CEO Andrei Zelinsky said that carriers began to refuse long-distance trips, fearing that there would be no fuel at gas stations along the way. As a result, carriers prefer to take orders over distances not exceeding 100–150 km. “They either don’t accept orders at all or significantly inflate the cost of transportation. As a result, on certain main routes there is an increase in rates by an average of 10%,” said NC Logistic.

Meanwhile, the Astra Telegram channel writes that the cost of transportation from Rostov-on-Don to the annexed Crimea reaches half a million rubles. The land corridor is subject to active shelling by the Ukrainian army: since the beginning of May, about 500 attacks on trucks have been recorded in the occupied territories.

According to The Insider as of June 26, restrictions on the sale of fuel are already observed in 84 regions of Russia and the occupied territories. Regional authorities explain what is happening by “restructuring logistics,” high seasonal demand and other reasons, avoiding connecting the fuel shortage with the daily attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the oil refining infrastructure of Russia.