Queues of trucks continue in front of the "Captain Andreevo" border crossing. The transport crisis came about because of the introduction of a new system in Turkey, reports Bulgaria ON AIR.
By midday, the line was more than 20km long, with hundreds of disgruntled drivers still waiting to get through. Most drivers wait on the road for more than 24 hours and are still far from crossing the border.
"It is terribly difficult to wait. We have no water, no food, no cigarettes, absolutely nothing. There are no toilets, there is nothing," said the driver from Serbia, Dusan Milicevic.
Waiting for days made drivers nervous and this led to tension. Some of them were trying to stop their colleagues who were trying to pass. According to the Turkish drivers, only they were not allowed to the border.
"Bulgarian drivers overtake the columns, we complain about them. Customs officials are also not working properly. It's most dangerous in the evening, that's why we have reflective jackets. Accidents happen in the evening and a person can be killed," said the driver from Turkey, Mazlum Daa.
"It was going hard, now they started working a little more. The system may have caught on to them," noted Ahmed Ismail.
After Turkey closed its border for HGVs for 28 hours, traffic was reopened at around 1am tonight. Border crossing "Captain Andreevo" working at full capacity.
"The queue will be joined by trucks with this and goods that have been waiting in other places or withheld their shipments, given the declared inoperability,", commented the expert in the "Information and Public Relations" department. Diana Markova.
Volunteers from BCHK-Haskovo came to help the drivers.
"At this moment we have 500 bottles of water and 500 croissants, but we are ready, we have provided more reserve, as much as we are expected to help," said the president of BCHK-Haskovo Minka Micherinkova.
The transport crisis on the border with Turkey is expected to be resolved within two or three days.