ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Railways (PR) has shown an interest to build the infrastructure of Islamabad Customs Dry Port of international standard. On reminding the Pakistan Railways Ministry by the Islamabad Customs many a times, the PR has finally passed a tender to construct a weighbridge at the Islamabad Dry Port after a long period of meetings and correspondences between the PR and Islamabad Customs Dry Port.
This was stated by Assistant Collector Amanat Khan while talking to Customs Today during an exclusive interview.
The work to build the weighbridge on the premises of dry port will start soon. He said the importers’ community working at dry port Islamabad is happy to hear this news as they will save their time and money by using the facility under one roof. He said the PR will also be able to get a handsome amount after the installation of the said facility.
Answering a query, he said the dry port collected surplus amount of Rs245.771million during the first three quarters of financial year (July to March) 2016-17 against the assigned collection target under the head of Customs Duty. The dry port did Rs2454.451million during said period against the assigned target of Rs2208.78million under the same head.
During the first nine months (July to March) Fy16-17, the dry port cleared 2246 dutiable containers whereas the dry port entertained 2069 Goods Declarations (GDs) during said period. During the month of March FY16-17, the target under the head of CD revised and the dry port surpassed the revised CD target. The dry port was previously assigned Rs275million CD target whereas its target was revised upward with the amount of Rs293.78million.
During March, the dry port generated Rs302.931million CD.
Replying to another question, he said the dry port received Rs274.561million during February FY 16-17 the Customs Duty whereas it did Rs268.666million CD during January. The dry port got Rs270.00million CD during the month of December FY16-17 and Rs203.94million was collected during November FY2016-17.
During October FY2016-17, the dry port earned Rs197.188million CD whereas the dry port collected Rs154.234 million during September. During the month of August, the dry port collected Rs170.956million. During the month of July FY2016-17, the dry port generated Rs119.00million CD.
Amanat Khan, giving details of the dutiable Goods Declarations (GDs), said the dry port entertained 237 GDs during the month of March 2016-17 whereas it processed 256 GDs during February and processed 212 GDs in January FY2016-17. During December, the dry port processed 237 GDs whereas 273 GDs were processed during November Fy2016-17.
During October FY2016-17, the dry port processed 211 GDs whereas it processed 202 GDs during the month of September while it entertained 257 GDs during August and 184 were processed during the month of July FY2016-17.
Talking about the containers, he said during the first nine months (July to March FY2016-17), the dry port cleared 2246 dutiable containers. Telling details about the dutiable containers month-wise (July to March 2016-17), he said During the month of March, the dry port cleared 263 dutiable containers whereas about 286 dutiable containers were cleared in the month of February FY-16-17 and about 268 containers were cleared during the month of January FY16-17.
About 243 dutiable containers were cleared during the month of December FY2016-17 while the dry port cleared 280 containers during the month of November. As many as 217 containers were cleared in the month of October FY2016-17 whereas 231 were cleared during September. And about 264 containers were cleared in the month of August and during month of July FY2016-17 the dry port cleared 194 dutiable containers.