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Starting from September 1, 2026, transportation documents go into numbers: waybills, applications and forwarding papers must be issued as EPD, and the paper ceases to legally confirm transportation. The scale affects most of the companies that ship or accept the goods. The main risk in 2026 is failures in processes and punitive conditions in contracts.

The EAEU accelerates the digitalization of transport control: by the end of 2026, the countries intend to switch to the electronic format of waybills and permits for cargo transportation. We are talking about the full-scale implementation of the overall process of the integrated information system of the Union. Currently, Belarus and Russia are actually exchanging data.

RWB (Wildberries & Russ) and S7 Cargo are launching electronic air waybills for domestic transportation: from April 1, 2026, e-AWB will be used on cargo flights, and from September 1, it will be expanded to transport marketplace goods on S7 Airlines passenger flights. For the market, this is a step towards mandatory EDI in transportation and faster cargo handling.

Electronic waybills will become mandatory starting in 2026. Digitalization of document management will reduce the costs of carriers and increase the transparency of the freight transportation market.