Waiting time on the Kerch ferry crossing decreased to 2 hours
Ulyana Grebennikova. The waiting time in the car turns on the Kerch crossing, which connects the mainland of the Russian Federation with the Peninsula of Crimea, decreased to 2 hours, informs on the last working day of the week unified transport Directorate.
After the annexation of Crimea to Russia, Kerch ferry that connects the Peninsula and the Krasnodar territory, began to experience additional traffic load. The Crimean authorities were supposed to go to the resumption of the railway messages via ferry from the fact that Russian citizens, as well as among them Crimeans, afraid to travel through the territory of Ukraine.
To discharge the Directorate has increased the number of ferries and opened a fresh routes from Novorossiysk and Anapa. For the past day on the crossing of the Kerch was transported about 20 thousand passengers.
" At this point of time for the crossing of the Kerch run six major ferries. The waiting time of loading is no more than 2 hours ", - is informed in the report.
According to the Directorate, during the day the ferries committed more than 70 flights in both directions. According to the information of operational duty, now in port " Caucasus " your turn at ferry waiting for about 120 cars in port Crimea " - about 20 cars. The previous day were transported in practice four thousand machines, about 20 thousand passengers, including a " single " ticket - 3, 5 thousand passengers.
July was the peak month of the load on Kerch ferry, on some days standby Time of loading of a ferry reached 30-40 hours. However, the introduction of an additional sixth ferry allowed to normalize the situation and to reduce the waiting Time from the port " Caucasus " For personal vehicles up to 4-5 hours.