Export and import activities between Bangladesh and India through land ports resumed on Sunday morning after a 10-day closure for the Eid-ul-Azha holidays.
Due to the extended holidays from June 5 to 14, a large quantity of goods had piled up at the Benapole land port.
Around 4,000 handling workers joined duty in the morning to load and unload the goods, said the port鈥檚 Deputy Director Mamun Kabir Talukdar.
Imdadul Haque Lata, General Secretary of the Benapole聽 C&F Agents Association, said bustling activity has returned to the port.
Businessmen involved in trade, along with port and customs officials, employees and dock workers, are all busy unloading goods.
Ibrahim Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Benapole Checkpost Immigration Police, said immigration services at the land port continued as usual during the holidays.
鈥業n previous years, thousands of people used to travel to India during the Eid holidays, but this year, a different scene was observed,鈥� he added.
President of Hili Land Port Import-Export Workers Group Md Sakhawat Hossain Shilpi said that export and import activities have resumed through the Hili Land Port.
About 42 trucks carrying imported Indian goods entered Bangladesh till 2:30 pm while trade operations beginning through this land port from 12 noon, he added.
Since Sunday morning, trucks carrying various types of Indian spices have entered the port after the Eid closure, said Md. Yusuf Ali, deputy assistant director of the Plant Department of Hili Land Port.
