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| Sunday, 5 January 2003 |
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Turnaround delays at SAGT come down The turnaround delays experienced by import and export trucks at the South Asia Gateway Terminals (SAGT) have been reduced due to the intervention of Maciek Kwiatkowski, the new CEO of SAGT and his team. Earlier trucks picking up import cargo or delivering export containers experienced inordinate turnaround time at the SAGT terminal, which caused problems to the trade when effecting cargo clearance. After several meetings between the SAGT staff and the Association of Clearing and Forwarding Agents and Sri Lanka Shippers Council, it was agreed that trucks' turnaround time will average 30 minutes from the time of reporting to terminal and will not exceed one hour. The trade has also agreed to explore ways of advancing and spreading the peak period coming to the terminal and to take container delivery initially by one and a half hours. SAGT has also decided to limit stacking to three high at its import terminal to facilitate speedier pick up of containers from the stacks, thus reducing the time of pick up from the yard as it was found that repositioning more containers is time consuming when the stacking height is greater. SAGT also accommodated the placing of Customs officers within its administrative terminal to facilitate processing of Customs papers, another step in reducing the delays. SAGT handled 75,000 import containers and 25,000 export containers at its terminal during 2002, which contributed 70 per cent of its revenue. |
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