Kommersant: residents of Magadan, Sakhalin and Kamchatka complained about a shortage of goods and food 
Eastern regions of Russia, Sakhalin, Magadan region , Kamchatka Territory and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, continue to experience an acute shortage of essential goods, including food. Kommersant writes about this with reference to local authorities and residents' complaints.
The address of Chukotka residents to President Vladimir Putin, published on the change.org portal, says that food – vegetables, fruits, dairy products and eggs – is scarce in almost all settlements, for example, in Pevek, Bilibino and the urban-type settlement Provideniya … In the last one for the summer came only one ship, the second is hoped to receive this month. The stores also do not have cabbage, carrots, onions, apples, even potatoes are running low.
Deliveries to Kamchatka are delayed for up to 60 days. According to the regional authorities, about 1.6 thousand containers remain in the seaside ports, which should have already arrived at local ports. According to the regional government, 1.1 thousand containers did not reach Sakhalin.
The reason for this situation was the increased load on the Primorye terminals due to the increased traffic from China. Problems at border crossings between countries and a sharp increase in freight rates for container ships led to the fact that Chinese manufacturers began to send goods to Europe via Russian railways.
Yuri Smirnov, General Director of Agent Service DV (a cement supplier to Kamchatka), claims that vessels cannot be loaded in the port of Vladivostok due to the actual lack of free berth walls for placement and loading. According to him, the terminals are focused on loading and dispatching containers, priority is given to transit cargo.
The Primorsky Transport Prosecutor's Office has begun checking for compliance with the law when organizing the delivery of products to the Far North through the port of Vladivostok. In addition, on behalf of Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev, a working group was created in the Ministry of Transport to control the delivery of goods to the regions of the Far East.
In mid-October, the publication already reported on problems with the delivery of food to Kamchatka and Chukotka. At the same time, the head of the first region, Vladimir Solodov, argued that food products began to be delivered on schedule and the situation would soon return to normal, and the governor of the second, Roman Kopin, said that from July to September, three times fewer ships came to the region than usual.
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