Business community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has expressed its grave concern over large number of Afghan transit trade containers being held up at Karachi port on the pretext of passing them through the scanning process and urged the government to make the clearance process easy in order to mitigate their difficulties and to promote the Pak-Afghan transit trade business.
The matter was discussed during a meeting of traders engaged in Afghan transit trade and exporters held here at the chamber house on Saturday. The meeting was presided over by the President of Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), Maqsood Anwar Pervaiz.
The meeting was informed that almost 7,000 Afghan transit goods containers were being held up at Karachi port under the pretext of scanning process while the traders were being charged detention charges.
The participants of the meeting said that the shipping company was also charging additional demurrage in the shape of rent from traders and exporters.
They added that there was no justification of carrying out scanning of Afghan transit trade goods trucks/containers at Karachi port and asked the authorities concerned to have this practice immediately stopped in order to accelerate the export process and boost the Pak-Afghan transit trade.
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