SIALKOT: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Member Customs Zahid has inaugurated an additional International Container Terminal.
Addressing the participants, Muhammad Zahid Khokhar congratulated the management of the Sialkot International Container Terminal Limited for developing the project on self-help basis and expressed his good wishes for the success of the terminal. He said that development of the new port will create new job opportunities in Sialkot.
Addressing the gathering, Ms Sarwat Tahira Habib, Chief Collector (North), said that the Pakistan Customs has been serving the trading community of this area in a meaningful manner for the last 32 years.
Round the clock export activity at Sialkot Dry Port Sambrial substantiates this claim. And now the commencement of this port would be an added challenge. She expressed hope that customs would live up to this challenge. She said that this new port can achieve success only, once all the stakeholders including businessman, agents, dry port management staff and customs work in harmony and synergy for a common cause and goal i.e. national interest.
The development of new dry port at Sialkot shall generate tremendous job opportunities to the local labour and thus would result in poverty alleviation and social development.
The opening ceremony was attended by a large gathering comprising participants from trade and industry. With this development, Sialkot and its trading community can boast of their exuberance and energy, with respect to self development based on self reliance.
Prior to this, the tangible achievements in this regard are a big Customs dry port, shouldering roughly Rs.100 billion of country’s export annually, and a state of the art international airport, which is expanding in terms of infrastructure, business and operations with each passing day. And now another customs station is in place to enhance and facilitate the supply chain to the international market from this area.
Prominent among those who attended the ceremony includes Muhammad Saleem Ahmad Ranjah, Director General, FBR (IPRE), Ahmad Reza Khan Collector Customs, Sialkot and Lt. Gen (r) Muhammad Hamid Khan, Chairman, Sialkot International Container Terminal Limited (SICTL).
