A Norwegian transporter last weekend drove the two containers from Storskog checkpoint and about 800 km along the road to Tromsø. From there, a cargo boat sails the goods north to Svalbard, national broadcaster NRK reports.
Spokesperson with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ane Haavardsdatter Lunde, said there has been a dialogue with Russian authorities to find a solution.
“We have been in contact with the embassy in Oslo via the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and via the Governor of Svalbard. We are glad that this case has been resolved in a good way. We hope that the Russians are too,” she said to NRK.
The transportation amounts to only about 20 tons, but the Russian truck drivers that came to the Norwegian border from Murmansk in June were not allowed to enter. Like other European nations, Norway has closed its seaports and land border for Russian cargo traffic under the EU’s 5th package of sanctions. Läs artikel