JESSORE: The Benapole port authorities have suspended export and import operations at Benapole land port after a clash among the truck drivers on the Indian side over maintaining serial.
“An altercation among the truck drivers over maintaining serial on the Indian side led to a scuffle,” said Customs Assistant Commissioner Ali Haider Sharif.
As tension escalated over the issue, the authorities concerned in the Indian side suspended the trade activities between the two countries, he said quoting Kartik Chakrawarty, general secretary of Indian C&F Agent Staff Association.
As a result of suspension, several thousand trucks remained stranded on both sides of the land port.
