‘Great injustice’: Shippers fume during govt hijacking of containers
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistani business leaders complained on Wednesday of losing millions of dollars to a government’s novel approach of containing protesters: by confiscating thousands of shipping containers, many still full of goods, to retard roads.
Transport operators complained that adult to 4,000 containers had been diverted from their common track between Karachi and Islamabad to retard a capital’s roads this week, as antithesis personality Imran Khan threatened a million-strong proof to close down a government.
“A good misapplication is being finished to us as authorities have seized some-more than 4,000 containers carrying goods,” Chaudhry Saeed Iqbal, clamp authority of a Karachi-based Pakistan Transport Federation, told AFP.
Zafar Bakhtawri, clamp boss of a Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industries, estimated a waste during ‘millions’ of dollars. He forked out that a pierce also brings factories, where storage space is singular when prolongation can't be shipped out, to a halt.
Babar Chaudhry, a internal ride operator, pronounced he had to compensate fines any time his shipments tumble behind schedule. “We have been propelling supervision and hold several meetings with authorities… though so distant they have not stopped this practice,” Chaudhry told AFP.
Government officials were not immediately accessible for comment.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 3rd, 2016.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1219131/great-injustice-shippers-fume-govt-hijacking-containers/