MULTAN: Deputy Collector (DC) Multan Dry Port Abdul Mueed Kanjoo has asked the business community of Multan to avail clearance facilities of the Multan Dry Port and Customs Department.
Talking to Customs today in an exclusive interview, he said that Multan Dry Port is one of the few Dry Ports in the country which is offering appropriate facilities to importers/ exporters of the region and as it is the only Dry Port in the location of South Punjab for clearance of delivery.
Multan Customs is providing an opportunity of swift clearance of consignments and same day clearance of batches is our trade mark, therefore importers and exporters preferred to clear their shipments from Multan Dry Port.
Importantly Multan Dry Port is covering almost 50 percent of Punjab province due to its graphical importance. It is our prime mission to bring more revenue in the Multan customs through our indigenous services.
Abdul Mueed Kanjoo further told that Multan Customs is providing exceptional services to exporters and importer. Timely clearance of the consignments is our motto with nominal cost.
We guarantees exporters and importers that their consignments are handled with care, fast track clearance is for their shipments. Customs clearance procedure should be exercised every time according to law for clearance of any consignments properly to end misdeclaration through better management.
We are delivering extra ordinary services for the clearance of shipments at the Multan Dry Port and clearing consignments of each and every importer without any delay Deputy Collector expressed. He told few Local manufacturers are taking benefits from our services due to swift clearance of their consignments without any complications. Some anti-development elements have created wrong perceptions about Multan Dry port due to which clients avoid clearance from Multan Dry port.
Asking the question about low volume of export from Multan Dry port, he stated that the volume of import of goods clearance from Multan Dry Port have multiple factors. Firstly one of the crucial aspects of low volume import and export is high freight charges for the import consignments due to which importers are mostly ignored Dry port and secondly monopoly of clearing agents is also one of the fact which misleads importers about Multan Dry Port.
He told that we are trying to project true picture of Multan Dry Port so that we can tackle existing issues. We are making all out efforts to increase imports and exports at the Multan dry Port and encouraging business community to avail our services.
Our services are cost effective for our clients as they could save their moneys by availing services of Multan Dry Port in the region he insisted.
In today’s world, solving import and export related issues will improve anyone’s trading business and offers cost effective solutions and can respond to the needs of your business and he advised local importers to come and avail services of Multan Dry Port for their business to save their time and cost of business.
Talking about the revenue generated by Multan Dry Port he said that, Dry port has generated Rs 3179.003 million revenue only from Customs duty regardless of multiple issues faced by Multan Dry Port from July to November and we are hopeful to produce further revenue in the upcoming period of the on-going fiscal year 2015-16.
