Lithuania encourages the EU to follow the example of the Baltic States and to step up its efforts to reduce paper-based freight transport procedures
At the meeting of the European Union (EU) Transport, Telecommunications and Energy (TTE) Council in Luxembourg, Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania Marius Skuodis emphasised the importance of developing an interoperable electronic freight information exchange system in Europe and called on EU Member States to take action in reducing paper-based freight transport procedures.
At the Council meeting the Minister presented some statistics of the year 2020 stating that, on average, there were 33.690 incoming and 24.468 outgoing trucks per month. Each of those trucks had to carry 100 sheets of paper per trip.