The Federation has been protesting since Saturday last the alleged charging of extra money by labourers at Bangladesh end of the Benapole border.
A three-hour meeting among the port users of both sides – Bangladesh and India – this morning, on the third day of the strike, ended inconclusively.
As a result, several thousand trucks got stranded in both sides of the port and Benapole Port authority is losing Tk. 23 crore of revenues from export-import every day.
The Indian truck workers alleged that the labours at Benapole are asking for higher charges per truck for goods loading-unloading.
Aminul Islam, a director of Benapole Port said the traders, port workers and administrative officials of the two countries held a meeting in the morning but no decision came from the meeting.
Kamal Uddin Shimul, vice-president of Benapole C&F Agent Association, however, alleged of a nexus developing between truck drivers and Bangaon municipality mayor in Petrapole, India, over charging Bangladeshi importers extra as demurrage for halting of export-import activities in the port.