Over 2000 trucks are stuck in traffic queues at the Russian-Latvian border, a source in the northwestern customs service said on Monday, RIA Novosti reports.
He said that the main queues start at border points with Russia in November, when deliveries increase in the run-up to Christmas and New Year.
The hardest hit crossing point is traditionally at the Russian-Latvian border and currently a total of 1200 trucks are queuing at the Terekhovo-Burachki border post on the road to Moscow and 950 at the Grebnevo-Ubylinka crossing on the highway to St. Petersburg.
Over 520 trucks are piled up at the border crossing with Finland, and 260 at the Russian-Estonian border.
Increased trade between Russia and the EU combined with the tiny traffic capacity of border posts have made such jams routine in the EU's most eastern states.