More than 87 thousand consignments of goods from abroad arrived at the customs checkpoints of the St. Petersburg Customs Service

For 11 months of 2023, more than 87 thousand foreign consignments of goods arrived at the customs posts of St. Petersburg Customs located in St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Novgorod, Vologda regions and the Komi Republic. Most of them – 63,300 consignments of goods – were delivered to the region by trucks. 23 700 consignments of goods were transported by rail.
According to Natalia Dautova, Head of the Customs Transit Control Department of St. Petersburg Customs, in 2023, the number of goods delivered  to customs posts of St. Petersburg Customs by rail transport increased by 29%, while the transportation of goods by road transport decreased by 30%;
The Shusharsky customs post accounts for the largest share of the increase in goods delivered by rail.
Such goods as paper and cardboard, plastic products, equipment and mechanical devices, foodstuffs, tobacco and industrial tobacco substitutes prevail in the structure of imports;
Pavel Gusev, spokesman of the St. Petersburg Customs Office
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