The proposals do not mention pipelines, which are also transport infrastructure.
Ways to achieve transport sanctions in proposals to strengthen sanctions The United States, Europe, and the world against Russia and Belarus, authored by the International Working Group, have narrowed it exclusively to “maritime” restrictions. Yulia Samaeva, editor of the ZN.UA economic department, writes about this – “Plan to strengthen sanctions against Russia. Ukrainian version”.
In particular, sanctions against Russian shipping companies, insurance bans and work with Russian crews, cargo, ship engine and spare parts manufacturers.
There is no mention of transport sanctions in the section on transport sanctions. about pipelines, which are also transport infrastructure. Of course, they could be mentioned in the oil and gas sanctions, but they were not mentioned.
There are also no ways to impose restrictions on road freight transport, although the volume of road imports from the EU to Russia is more than 30 billion dollars. per year, and forcing these goods to be imported by sea, spending much more money – a good sanction, from which Europe will not lose anything, and Russia will lose a lot.
There is no railway, which is also much cheaper than ” sea ”way of delivering goods and strongly connects Russia with China.
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