Electronic waybills became mandatory in Russia on 1 September 2026

From 1 September 2026, the issuance of transport waybills, orders-requests and a number of other shipping documents in electronic form became mandatory. According to the Ministry of Transport, more than 39 million documents passed through the GIS EPD system in the first month, and more than 545,000 companies became participants in the electronic exchange.

The TMS platform "Umnaya Logistika" reports that in September the number of operations for issuing electronic transport waybills (ETrN) in its system rose 24.2-fold compared with August. On 29 September the daily flow of ETrN titles was 58% higher than the total August figure. Transport and freight forwarding companies sent 30.9 times more titles than in the previous period, while cargo owners sent 12.4 times more.

In a survey of almost three hundred market players conducted in July–August 2026, 4.6% of respondents were already working regularly with electronic transport documents ahead of the deadline, and 28.6% were running test shipments. The main barrier cited was the unpreparedness of the counterparty, reported by 75.9% of those surveyed, while about half continued to duplicate electronic documents with paper ones.

The company expects the volume of ETrN issuance operations to keep growing at least until the end of the non-penalty transition period in March 2027, driven both by new participants joining and by a rising share of electronic shipments within companies already connected.