KARACHI: Importers are facing difficulties in clearance of their consignments due to low grounding space at Gerry’s Dnata terminal.
According to sources, more than 60 percent of the handling of consignments at the Air Freight Unit (AFU) is being done by the private company’s terminal. But due to low grounding space, it takes six or seven days to clear a consignment instead of a single day. Due to this, the importers have to pay extra for go-down’s rent.
The sources said that there was a dare need to arrange for more grounding space at the terminal; otherwise a large number of import items, including medicines, could be damages.
On the other hand, the officials at Dnata are not keen to make some extraordinary arrangements to counter this issue, and claimed that the late clearance of consignments was due to customs officials.
