PESHAWAR: Model Customs Collectorate, Peshawar has decided to operate two shifts in Peshawar Cantonment Dry Port to overcome the burden of containers and ensure their timely clearance.
Similarly, necessary measures have also been initiated for the operationalising of old dry port at Aman Ghar instead of Azakhel Dry Port from next week. The decision has been taken in wake of the stranding of hundreds of containers due to the strike of goods carriers in Karachi and after the ending of strike unlimited number of containers had started arriving back to Peshawar Dry Port, besides the starting of the arrival of GITTA trains containers, which had increased the burden of containers on dry port.
Keeping in view the situation, Collector Qurban Ali Khan along with Additional Collectors Customs Syed Fazal Samad and Rashid Habib and their complete teams visited Peshawar Dry Port where they inspected the parked containers and talked to the authorities concerned.
On this occasion, Collector Qurban Ali Khan directed that instead of one two shifts will be operated in Cantonment Dry Port to overcome the load of containers on the dry port and also ensure their timely clearance.
He told that so far the decision of the operating of two shifts is taken till June 30, 2017 and later it would be operated on necessity basis. The step will help clear 50 containers on daily basis.
The collector customs said that for the operationalising of the old Aman Ghar dry port, they had contacted the Director General (DG) National Logistic Cell (NLC) and it would be fully operationalised from next week. The dry port is equipped with all necessary facilities.
