Over 28,800 vehicles have crossed from Latvia to Russia and Belarus since launch of electronic queue

RIGA - Since October 15, 2025, when Latvia introduced an electronic queueing system for border crossing, 28,807 motor vehicles have crossed the border to Russia and Belarus, LETA was told at the Latvian State Radio and Television Center (LVRTC).

The largest number of vehicles - 13,115 trucks and cars - have been registered in the electronic queue and have crossed the Latvian border to Belarus at the Paternieki border crossing point.

The electronic queue solution was introduced last fall to urgently address significant traffic safety and other security risks caused by long queues of freight trucks on roadsides at the border, which formed as trucks waited for days and weeks to cross the border.

Lvrobeza.lv is a temporary electronic queue solution used by the parties involved in border crossing while the LVRTC develops a dedicated IT system and a user portal.

As border crossing is only possible at the registered time, there is no longer any physical or legal reason for waiting in queues on the roadside. Vehicles no longer concentrate in the border area and now wait for the border crossing time in specially created car parks or elsewhere in Latvia without entering the border area.

Karlis Silins, head of the LVRTC commercial department, notes that the implementation of the solution has eliminated a security problem that had persisted in the border area for decades, but has also marked a new trend - attempts to use various technological and robotic solutions to make it more difficult to cross the border in a safe, organized and timely manner.