AMMAN —
Officials in
Aqaba Governorate have met with the Owners of Clearance and
Transport Companies Association and promised solutions to long-running backups
at the port, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
اضافة اعلان
Association President Dhaifallah Abu Aqoulah recently met with the
Aqaba Company for Ports Operation and Management, and said that the authorities
“promised that there will be rapid solutions to do away with paperwork and
digitize documents, which will facilitate and speed up the clearance process.”
Traders have been
complaining about delays at Yard Number 4 for several months. Abu Aqoula told Jordan
News last November that the traders would take “escalatory measures” if
their complaints were not addressed.
The trading
association’s committee members also met with Col. Ahmad Al-Akalik, director of
the Aqaba Customs Directorate, and discussed “all the challenges that the
clearance and transport sector faces,” according to Akalik.
The colonel
affirmed that there is an effort towards “increasing the inspectors assigned to
the customs department and reducing the number of inspectors, in addition to
ending inspections of goods destined for other customs centers, which should
speed up the process of transferring and clearing goods.”
The new measures
decided on during the meeting include sorting containers entering the customs
center, dedicating ramps to each lane, and taking samples of goods by type. New
logistics companies will also be brought in to speed up the process of
unloading goods in the yards.
Akalik promised
that the inspection rate will be reduced to 5 percent, and that the National
Platform for Transactions will be implemented so that merchants do not have to
deal with various offices.
Abu Aqoulah
affirmed that the authorities’ response “will speed up the clearance process
and prevent backups, especially as we are close to the beginning of Ramadan,
which means an increase in demand for goods.”
“The association will work
to follow up on these demands with the competent authorities in the Aqaba
Regional Authority, and confirm whether the root causes of backups are solved,”
he concluded.
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