PESHAWAR: The newly-appointed Deputy Collectors Peshawar Dry Port Zakir Mohammad has assured customs agents association and business community to resolve their problems and remove their reservations regarding parking of re-conditioned vehicles at the dry port.
Talking to a delegation led by vice chairman, Customs Agents Association, the deputy collectors said that customs agents and business community is playing active role in the promotion of export through Peshawar Dry Port and it is responsibility of the government to provide all available facilities to the community to promote their business. He said that from the last several years the old modal reconditioned vehicles parked in Peshawar Dry Port has created multiple problems in parking area, due to which exporters are facing multiple problems.
Addressing on the occasion, vice chairman Customs Agent Association Ziaul Haq Sarhadi congratulated the newly appointed deputy collector and appraised him of the problems of the business community and customs agents. He said that around 305 reconditioned vehicle have been parked for the last two years which hamper the work of exporters and importers.
He said that due to lack of interest of Pakistan Railways export goods are being loaded on private trucks and after reaching Karachi for GD filing, it is being export to foreign countries. He said that due to this practice the Peshawar Dry Port is losing its importance. Later Deputy Collectors assured to resolve the problems of exporters and custom agents association to provide better atmosphere in the dry port.
