Import and export activities through Hili Land Port (HLP) in Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur resumed on Saturday after an eight-day vacation on the occasion of the Durga Puja.
General Secretary of the Customs, Clearing and Forwarding Agents Association of HLP Jamil Hossain Cholonto said import-export activities remained suspended from September 30 to October 7 marking the occasion; however it has been resumed Saturday morning through the land port after celebrations of the greatest religious festival of the sanatan community.
"After unloading the Indian freight trucks, local trucks started loading and leaving the land port for different parts of the country with imported goods from this afternoon," he added.
Officer-in-Charge of the immigration check post (ICP) at HLP Md. Badiuzzaman said movement of passport-visa holder citizens, however, remained normal through the ICP during the period despite closure of import and export activities.
Bd-pratidin English/Lutful Hoque
