Trade thru Benapole resumes after per month
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Trade through Benapole land port resumed yesterday with the entry of 15 Indian trucks packed with jute seeds, after a closure for per month due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The Indian trucks visited the no-man's land, where Bangladeshi employees completed the loading and unloading.
Trade started with perishable goods and India will export other products, including garment recycleables later, said Kartik Chakraborty, general secretary of the Petrapole C&F Agent Staff Welfare Association of India.
Some 2,214 Indian trucks are now waiting to enter Bangladesh from India, said Paritosh Biswas, president of the Bangaon Import-Export Association.
In order to decrease the congestion of cargo trucks at Petrapole, business associations, customs and police of the two countries, the Border Security Force and the BGB are determined to load and unload goods imported from India at the no-man's land.
Your choice was taken at a crisis meeting at the no-man's land on Wednesday.
If India exports goods and Bangladeshi traders accept those from no-man's land, cooperation will be provided by the port authority, said Mamun Kabir Tarafdar, deputy director of Benapole port.
Trade through the Benapole-Petrapole channel remained suspended since March 23.
Petrapole police are keeping Indian truck drivers bound for Bangladesh in quarantine for 14 days.
Source: https://www.thedailystar.net
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