Chittagong Bureau :
At least 15 organisations of truck owners and transport workers are demonstrating in the port city on Monday, halting freight movements at the 18 depots.
Since Mar 1, vehicles are being charged Tk 150 while entering the depots, said Safiur Rahman Tipu, a leader of inter-district freight owners’ union, the Truck-Covered Van Owners’ Association.He told the media that depots workers also charged Tk 600- Tk 1,300 per vehicle for loading and unloading.
“We have halted all freight work at private container depots from Monday morning to demand an end to this extortion,” said the association’s Organising Secretary Tipu.
On Saturday, transport owners moved the Chittagong Port Authority chairman and other concerned offices with memorandums over the issue.
“The transport owners are not allowing any vehicles to enter the depots this morning, so all freight is halted com”, Bangladesh Inland Container Depot Association’s Secretary Ruhul Amin told this correspondent yesterday.
He, however, said that vehicles have to pay Tk 100 while entering the depots, not Tk 150 as the transport owners and workers claim. “It’s Tk 50 for the gate pass and another Tk 50 for parking.”
All depots charge for a ‘gate pass’, but parking fees are only charged at those depots that have the facility, claimed Amin adding the Chittagong port also charges Tk 57.50 for parking.He said the money raised from gate passes are used to cover maintenance cost of the depots.
On depot workers charging to load and unload, Amin said no depot operators support it. “But if
At least 15 organisations of truck owners and transport workers are demonstrating in the port city on Monday, halting freight movements at the 18 depots.
Since Mar 1, vehicles are being charged Tk 150 while entering the depots, said Safiur Rahman Tipu, a leader of inter-district freight owners’ union, the Truck-Covered Van Owners’ Association.He told the media that depots workers also charged Tk 600- Tk 1,300 per vehicle for loading and unloading.
“We have halted all freight work at private container depots from Monday morning to demand an end to this extortion,” said the association’s Organising Secretary Tipu.
On Saturday, transport owners moved the Chittagong Port Authority chairman and other concerned offices with memorandums over the issue.
“The transport owners are not allowing any vehicles to enter the depots this morning, so all freight is halted com”, Bangladesh Inland Container Depot Association’s Secretary Ruhul Amin told this correspondent yesterday.
He, however, said that vehicles have to pay Tk 100 while entering the depots, not Tk 150 as the transport owners and workers claim. “It’s Tk 50 for the gate pass and another Tk 50 for parking.”
All depots charge for a ‘gate pass’, but parking fees are only charged at those depots that have the facility, claimed Amin adding the Chittagong port also charges Tk 57.50 for parking.He said the money raised from gate passes are used to cover maintenance cost of the depots.
On depot workers charging to load and unload, Amin said no depot operators support it. “But if
