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June 30, 2000
Chittagong
(UNB) – Operational activities at Chittagong Port resumed on Thursday
after 24 hours of disruption due to work stoppage by stevedore agents. The
port activities returned to normal at 4pm as Bangladesh Masters Stevedore
Association (BMSA) withdrew its nonstop work stoppage programme after
Shipping Ministry temporarily put off the new rule that prompted them to
enforce the strike. BMSA
went on the indefinite work stoppage from 4pm Wednesday after a Finance
Bill-2000 was passed in Parliament declaring stevedore agents as
Customs-authorized agents like CF agents. BMSA
chairman AHM Manjurul Alam said they would again go on indefinite work
stoppage in the port from July 16 if the new rule were not cancelled by
July 15. A
total of 68 ships, carrying imported goods, were waiting in the port for
unloading, the sources said.
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