Hundreds of trucks are piling up at the Al-Batha border crossing – The crisis remains unresolved
Dozens of trucks loaded with various goods are still stuck in the Saudi Al-Batha customs area, and the problem has started to worsen, by preventing the entry of trucks through the Al-Batha crossing; This has increased the number of trucks parked.
Large stack
Activists circulated a video showing hundreds of trucks piling up at the Al-Batha crossing between Saudi Arabia and the UAE, less than a month after a similar crisis. The trucks are carrying food, medicine, electronics, cars, and other consumer goods that drivers warn could end because of the heat. Among the 500 trucks are about 200 trucks stuck at the border, while others are carrying goods from the UAE side in preparation for transporting them to Jordan.
Refrigerated trucks reportedly consume 40 Jordanian dinars a day in diesel to run their refrigeration engines, so that food and ration items are not damaged. Some of the refrigerated trucks are expensive, including fish.
The crisis is ongoing
Dr. Zaid Al-Nawaiseh, a Jordanian political analyst, says that a real and major crisis is beginning to worsen, through preventing Jordanian trucks coming from the United Arab Emirates to Jordan through the Saudi Al-Batha crossing. The stranded drivers suffer from a lack of services, water, food and medicine, while some suffer from chronic diseases, pointing out that the trucks’ location is not serviced.
He added, “All Jordanian trucks coming from the United Arab Emirates through the Saudi border are parked at the Saudi Al-Batha customs, as a result of the disruption of the server system a few days ago. The strange thing is that the system is currently running without any solutions”.
Meanwhile, Saudi tweeps posted videos that they said were part of an operation to thwart an attempt to smuggle more than 10 million Captagon pills through trucks.
In early March, hundreds of trucks from the UAE headed to the kingdom. Jordanian media said the congestion occurred after Saudi Arabia blocked the passage of truck drivers to Jordan through the kingdom.
A Jordanian trade union announced the end of the crisis of Jordanian trucks stranded on the UAE-Saudi border in the Saudi region of Customs Al-Batha after Saudi authorities used a new system that caused delays for trucks for several days.
