Tall system also in Latvia - increasing of the costs of hauliers

Tall system will be launched also on Latvia´s roads at 1st July 2014. Latvia as one of the last EU countries will launch tall system on their roads. Latvian hauliers are expecting increasing of their costs about 5 % that must be added to their rates for the transport.

Latvian Government refers to the fact, that their country is one of the last countries of EU without tall system and surrounding country like Belarus launched the tall system in 2012, Russia is planning to launch the tall system in 2015 and also Ukrainian Government is negotiating tall system that should be launched in short future. Yield of the tall system should be used for improving of road infrastructure.