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January 30, 2001 

Lalmonirhat-- (UNB) – Hilly Land Port has set a record earning revenue Tk 6.8 crore in the month of December last surpassing the target of Tk 4.5 crore.

This record amount of revenue has been collected in 23 working days of the month, officials said.

In the first six months of 2000-2001 fiscal, Customs officials informed, they earned around Tk 33 crore from import items carried through this land port. Target of revenue during the period was Tk 27 crore.

“The record earning was possible due to the prevailing stable and congenial atmosphere here,” said president and secretary of Clearing & Forwarding (C&F) Association Abul Kalam Azad and Kamal Hossain respectively while talking to UNB.

With the commissioning of the Bangabandhu Bridge, local importers are importing huge commodity through this land port due to cost effectiveness and convenient transportation facilities, they added.

Officials and C&F association leaders expressed the hope that annual revenue income will rise around Tk 300 crore if the land port is made a full-fledged one.

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