Four-day rapid container clearance process begins today

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CHATURANGA PRADEEP SAMARAWICKRAMA Follow

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Colombo, January 30 (Daily Mirror) - The Sri Lanka Customs, with the full cooperation of joint trade unions, launched a four-day expedited container clearance process today, aiming to clear the backlog of containers destined for examination yards by February 2, Customs Media Spokesman and Additional Director General Seevali Arukgoda said.

He said that all examination yards and the Valuation Directorate will operate from today till Sunday (2) with full staff, ensuring that all queued containers are cleared.

Therefore, all consignees, clearing agents and transporters are requested to extend their fullest cooperation by attending to their tasks on time, enabling the backlog to be cleared within the given period.

All other government agencies working alongside the Sri Lanka Customs have been informed to support this initiative.

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ANTON Thursday, 30 January 2025 09:07 PM

MUST BE A PART OF CLEAN SRILANKA.

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Gabriella Thursday, 30 January 2025 10:03 PM

The impossible dream of bureaucratic efficiency is not a pipedream. All that is required is replacement of personnel resistant to change.

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dinesh Thursday, 30 January 2025 10:19 PM

ill believe it when the backlog is cleared...until then talk is cheap

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Priyanee Wijesekera Friday, 31 January 2025 12:53 AM

Will all the containers be released without checking ?

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mina Friday, 31 January 2025 03:57 AM

Move is appreciated as all the defeated corrupt forces are getting together to topple the government since they could no longer make their illegal earnings

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N Padukka Friday, 31 January 2025 08:37 AM

Who is in charge? Usuf or AKW?

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Saugeetha Weeraratne Friday, 31 January 2025 08:39 AM

Perhaps backlog is to release some unclean containers without checking.

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Appi Lage Container Friday, 31 January 2025 09:50 AM

Ha Ha Ha One more foolish attempt to payback the racketeers who funded the JVP government.

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melville perera Friday, 31 January 2025 10:28 AM

with all the state of the art scanners provided capable of decting illegal items even 100 feet below the surface of the sea something is amiss to end up with such a back log of uncleared container cargo. Your guess is as good as mine!!!

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A Concerned Citizen Friday, 31 January 2025 12:26 PM

Rapid container clearance should not mean clearance without proper examination of cargo as was done with 323 containers recently on the instruction of a Deputy Minister.

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