KARACHI: Model Customs Collectorate (MCC) of Appraisement (West) has got back its allotted space of the examination area from the authorities of Karachi International Container Terminal (KICT).
According to the details, the KICT administration had used the allotted space of the examination area of the MCC-Appraisement (West) at KICT for grounding and dumping the empty containers, since long.
Collector MCC-Appraisement (West) Muhammad Saleem has already held several meetings with the authorities concerned of KICT in order to evacuate the space allotted to Pakistan Customs and has also been writing letters to Karachi Port Trust and terminal authorities in this regard.
When contacted, Collector Muhammad Saleem said that the KICT administration after clear intimations by the MCC-Appraisement (West) has evacuated the allotted space of Pakistan Customs at the terminal, which will definitely give an extra edge to the examination staff of the Collectorate.
He said that around 200 containers would be grounded at a time for examination at the particular space evacuated by the terminal operator, adding that importers and other stakeholders will not face any impediments now in clearance of their containers.
Muhammad Saleem confirmed that there would be no difficulties in the clearance process of the containers after retrieving the allotted space of the examination area, adding that additional duties of the Customs officials from different terminals would be assigned on weekends in order to clear the consignments.
To a query, Collector MCC-Appraisement (West) confirmed that there remains no backlog at the terminal right now and all previous blocking due to transporters’ strike has been cleared.
