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CCCI keen to set up scanner at Ctg port without govt finance

Star Business Report
The Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) expressed interest to set up container scanning machine at die Chittagong port with the chamber's own | funds and without any financial involvement of the government.
In a fax-message to the Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed. CCCI President In-Charge MA Latif proposed Tuesday to allow the CCCI to install scanning machine at Chittagong port on the basis of Built, Own and Operate
(BOO) as the latter did for the automation system at the Chittagong Customs House.
It is vital to install scanning machines to make the port compliant and to bring dynamism into the port's activities.
It is also needed to save the port users from unnecessary harassment and to increase revenue collection by following transparent procedures, the CCCI leader observed in the fax message.
The CCCI leader said that as per international rules and conditions of safety and other compliances for cargo
transportation, there is a provision to scan containers bound for any port in the US, European Union or other countries, prior to shipments.
Scanning at a third port or transit point some times takes an additional five to six days to increase the lead-time of cargo transportation.
On the other hand, in case of imports, an absence of scanning points creates scopes for evading taxes through false declaration and this causes unnecessary harassment of honest busi-
nessmen as well.
As such installation of scanning machines at the entry and exit points of the port becomes imperative to help transparent taxation of import cargo for increasing revenues and containerisation of export cargo to follow international compliance, said MA Latif in the fax message.
But, due to various complexities with the installation of scanners at the initiative, the government could not do so in the last thirteen years.
An ongoing process of installation of scanners
came to a halt recently as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was not providing the loan it assured earlier.
Furthermore, installation of the scanners with the government's fund under fresh initiative would delay the process even further and push it into uncertainty.
Under the situation, the CCCI proposed to allow them to install the scanners by following the Public Procurement Rules and technical compliance of the tenders floated at the initiative of the government earlier, said a CCCI press releases.