The major checkpoint on Bulgaria's border with Greece "Kulata" was closed briefly Monday night for heavy trucks and buses because of a strike of Greek agricultural producers, the Border Police announced.

The Greek border authorities had notified their Bulgarian colleagues Monday afternoon that the road between the border checkpoint and the Greek city of Seres, which then continues further south to Thesaloniki and Athens, had been blocked by over 800 tractors about 10 km south of the border.

As a result, the Bulgarian border authorities prohibited buses and heavy trucks from going through the Kulata Checkpoint for an unspecified period of time; there had been no restrictions for cars..

Long lines of cars waiting to cross into Greece started to form on the Bulgarian side of the border Monday night.

After midnight, however, the Greek authorities managed to make the protesting farmers clear the major road, and the traffic through the Kulata Checkpoint has been restored to normal early Tuesday morning.

There are no traffic problems at the Ilinden Checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Greek border, which is located to the east of Kulata so it could be used as an alternative route for traveling to Greece.

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