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Akhaura land port in crisis

Sheikh Md Shahidul Islam, Brahmanbaria
Akhaura land port in Brahmanbaria has been facing setback for around two years in unloading exported goods at Agartala land port in India because of non-compliance with the loading and unloading time by the Indian side, customs officials said.
They said the loading and unloading time of the bordering land ports was fixed from sunrise to sunset in a conference of Joint Group of Custom by both the countries. But the neighbouring land port hardly follows the decision, leading to a revenue loss of over Tk 30 crore a year by the local port.
They often start unloading at 9.30am and close at 3pm.
Imtiaz Ahmed, land customs officer of the Akhaura port, alleged that such indifferent activities are causing sufferings to the workers of the stranded vehicles near the
port here as some 30 to 50 trucks remain stranded at the port everyday.
The Bangladeshi exporters need to count a heavy loss of more than Tk 2,000 per truck everyday.
Ahmed said they could earn more than Tk 200 crore as revenue a year if the Indian side followed the timeframe of unloading goods.
The port earned Tk 168.50 crore revenue last fiscal year.
The port officials several times
raised the issue to the local authorities concerned, but there has been no result yet.
Cement, stone chips, food products, fish, dry fish and toys are the main items that are exported to India through the busy land port of the eastern zone of the country, which is mainly known as an export-based port as Bangladesh does not import much through it.
However the Indian port has unofficially informed the Akhaura
port official that the unloading works are delayed because of some official procedures there.
The Indian side also said they have made sheds for keeping the goods imported from Bangladesh, but those are yet to open, and so the port cannot unload the goods timely. They also need to keep the imports by the roadside, which takes time.
They have to work with limited government labourers at the port, the Indian side said.