Export and import activities between Bangladesh and India through Benapole land port 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 port.
Around 4,000 handling workers joined duty in the morning to load and unload the goods, said the port’s Deputy Director Mamun Kabir Talukdar.
Imdadul Haque Lata, General Secretary of the Benapole 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.
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Ibrahim Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Benapole Checkpost Immigration Police, said immigration services at the land port continued as usual during the holidays.
“In previous years, thousands of people used to travel to India during the Eid holidays, but this year, a different scene was observed,” he added.