Core problems the road freight transport companies face due to the refuge crisis

Abstract

The World Economic Crisis is still on the rise and has increased such processes as poverty, discrimination and war. In 2015 this phenomenon brought to Europe one of the biggest social-economic problem, called European Migrant crisis or European refugee crisis. According to Eurostat, EU member states received over 1.39 million first-time asylum applications in 2015 and this statistics does not even include the refugees who did not try to attain the asylum-seeker status. Long waiting periods for the asylum permissions, asylum application cancellations, and humans’ fears not to be accepted by the government’s decisions, force people to take illegal actions entering the other countries, thus increasing illegal migration. One of the most important features of this current migration process is application of various transportation means, modes and technologies which facilitates the human movement in time, space and speed. These illegal intrusions have been noticed all over the world in all transport types, such as air, land (rail, road) and water. Meanwhile, the European migrant crisis, evaluating the migrants who have already arrived in Europe, mainly enter illegal land transportations by road and rail freight transport, ignoring the rest. In 2015 European countries recognized the illegal migration problem and improved the border control. During 2015, 1.82 million people were detained and arrested while attempting to cross the borders of the EU states illegally. The interruptions to road freight transport unit might disrupt the work of global supply chain and cause chain reaction malfunction to all supply chain participants. The purpose of the research described in this paper is to highlight the relevance of the danger the illegal immigrants cause to the road freight transport units and the potential disruption to the global supply chains