Imports and exports through the Benapole port have been suspended due to a five-point demand by the Committee to Save Lives and Livelihoods at the Petrapole land port in India. Due to this, hundreds of trucks carrying goods have been stuck in the port areas of the two countries since Sunday morning. Importers and exporters are fearing losses as most of the trucks are perishable and contain raw materials of various industries.
Due to the corona, many rules and regulations have to be followed to maintain the social distance and the bread and butter of the common porters has been affected. In this situation, porters and general traders are agitating to get back to work. Their demands are to immediately restore the working environment of hand coolies and transport coolies as before, to make arrangements for drivers and assistants to travel on foot, to stop harassment of ordinary traders in the name of safety, to evacuate cars within 24 hours in Bangladesh, To do.
Karthik Chakraborty, general secretary of the Petrapole C&F Welfare Staff Association, said many workers were on indefinite strike for fear of losing their jobs due to various restrictions in the name of coronary hygiene.
Benapole Port Deputy Director (Administration) Mamun Tarafdar said that import and export through Benapole has been stopped due to strike of workers at Petrapole Port.
