In time for the holiday cargo surge, Poland has granted Ukraine 5,000 more trucking permits for December,

In time for the holiday cargo surge, Poland has granted Ukraine 5,000 more trucking permits for December, reports Infrastructure Minister Vladislav Krikliy. Earlier this year, Poland cut the number of permits for Ukrainian truckers by 38%, to 160,000. Ukrainian officials complain to Warsaw and to Brussels that Poland is violating Ukraine’s free trade pact with the EU. Ukrainian truckers complain that Poland is pressuring them to emigrate, to drive for Poland’s chronically understaffed trucking companies.