In this way, they express their disagreement with the "seizure of the transport market to the East by Belarusian and Russian companies", Radio Lublin reports.

The participants of the action claim that Belarusian enterprises are "striking a blow to the Polish transport industry" by seizing the market.

These companies are "more competitive because they go directly to Russia," which is not available to Polish carriers.

"We demand to ban the entry of Belarusian and Russian semi-trailers into Poland," the radio station quotes the representative of the Polish company, Kazimierz Blazeichyk.

— Belarusian companies with foreign capital registered in Poland are attacking our transport sector.

Belarusians massively create companies in Poland, drive semi-trailers with Belarusian license plates].

These companies are fiction: they do not have normal documentation, normal accounting, and a transport base.

Such a company exists today, but tomorrow it will be "bugged": it will pay neither taxes nor people."

According to the representative of the industry, this protest is "a manifestation of powerlessness", because Polish companies "should work, not protest".

The problem, in his opinion, is caused by the "holey sanctions" that were introduced by the European Union in relation to Russia.

According to the information of the participants of the protest, in 2022, "expatriates from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia opened about two thousand transport companies in Poland, that is about five thousand cars.

They claim that Belarusian companies "undercut tariffs", entered the Polish market and actually take orders from local carriers, while the conversation is "not only about the East, because they also carry cargo to the West."

"The transporters' protest and the related blockade relate to the export route from Poland,"

Radio Lublin notes that "now the protesters are passing by "one car per hour", and the transport coming from Belarus is "for now driving freely".

The participants of the protest action warn that if they do not start talking with them, they will block the return direction, as well as the checkpoint with Lithuania, through which Belarusian and Russian carriers also enter.

On March 23, Polish freight companies held a warning campaign to, among other things, achieve a ban on the registration of transport companies with Russian and Belarusian capital in the country "on the ring road, without entering Warsaw."

The protesters gave the government 14 days to respond to the demands.

As part of restrictive measures against Russia for the war against Ukraine and the role of Belarus in military aggression, the European Union has banned Belarusian carriers from April 9, 2022 from moving cargo by road through the territory of the EU, including transit.

In response to this, the authorities in Minsk have banned the movement of tractors registered in the EZ across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union to Belarus since April 16.

An exception is made for transport that goes through certain checkpoints to specially established places for carrying out cargo operations and interception.

For this, 14 points of customs clearance and waiting areas were allocated.

A new round of the "transport war" began soon after journalist Andrzej Pachobut, an activist of the unofficial Union of Poles, was sentenced to 8 years in prison for political reasons.

On February 10, Poland closed one of the two checkpoints available for travelers - Bobrovniki - for an indefinite period.

In response, on February 17, the government of Belarus restricted entry to the territory of Belarus for Polish trucks and tractors.

On March 23, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Poland, Mariusz Kaminski, said that if the Belarusian authorities release Pachobut, the border crossing in Babrowniki will be opened the next day.