Operations of Benapole Trade Reopen Sunday.

Import and export between Bangladesh and India through the Benapole land port remained off for the last two days due to the weekly holiday and the public holiday marking the Holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, which cause allocation cross border trade flow.

In accordance with the officials validate,   The country’s largest land port,  marked  a complete shutdown  in trading system  over the past two days as customs and port activities were interrupted.  Apart  the suspension of goods carrying , cross the border. Traveller with   passport holders continued to pass the   without interruption .

Emdadul Haque Lota, general secretary of the Benapole Clearing and Forwarding (C&F) Agents Association, added that  trade with India was totally  inactive on Friday due to the weekly holiday, while all customs and port-related services remained closed on Saturday in observance of Eid-e-Miladunnabi. He assumed that “Regular trading operations will  restart on Sunday morning,” 

Benapole Port Authority Director Shamim Hossain confirmed  that while cargo handling and customs operations were stopped, arrangements were made to return empty, Indian trucks that had previously unloaded goods at the port.

According to port data , al most   300 trucks  goods from India enter Bangladesh daily through Benapole, while pretending   80  trucks depart with export shipments to India. The government generates an targeted  Tk 15 crore in revenue each day from import activities alone, impacting  the economic provital  of the port.