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A joint meeting confirms that the port of Hodeida is ready to receive commercial containers

 

A meeting in Sana’a, headed by Deputy Prime Minister for Services and Development Dr. Hussein Makbouli and in the presence of Minister of Transport Amer Al-Marani and a number of merchants and companies, confirmed that the port of Hodeida is ready to receive commercial containers at a high technical and security level.. He pointed out that the government decided to provide a series of facilities to all carriers. Reducing customs duties by 49 percent.

The joint meeting, which included the head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Sana’a, Hassan Muhammad al-Kbous, his deputy Muhammad Muhammad Sharp, the head of the Red Sea Ports Corporation, Captain Muhammad bin Ishaq, and the Director General of the Standards, Metrology and Quality Control Authority, Dr. Containers of shipping companies in the port of Hodeida located during the previous period.

The meeting also approved that the joint technical committee of the Chambers of Commerce and Navigation, the Red Sea Ports Corporation and other relevant authorities, work on preparing for the return of the shipping lines to the port of Hodeida, solving all problems and preparing the field, provided that it submit daily reports on its work and the level of its achievement.

During the meeting, Dr. Maqboli stressed the government’s keenness to return container shipping to the port of Hodeida by providing a package of facilities and customs reductions so as to contribute to reducing the cost of goods that rose as a result of the siege and preventing the countries of aggression for ships loaded with containers from reaching the port of Hodeida and transferring them to the port of Aden.

He pointed out that the countries of aggression are deliberately imposing an economic blockade and forbidding the entry of food, pharmaceutical and consumer goods and oil derivatives to the port of Hodeida, until they arrive at a double cost through the port of Aden, which leads to high prices and the consumer bears price differences that burden him.

Dr. Maqboli called on the United Nations to take responsibility for the economic blockade against the Yemeni people and the closure of the Hodeida port in front of containers, in violation of all humanitarian laws and charters.

For his part, the Minister of Transport praised the cooperation shown by the shipping companies, the Chamber of Shipping and the Chamber of Commerce for the return of containers to the port of Hodeida.

In the meeting, it was agreed to complete the registration of companies wishing to ship to the port of Hodeida with the shipping companies and to send official requests to them. It was also agreed to inform the United Nations of the need to overcome difficulties and intervene for the success of shipping to the port of Hodeida, urging international shipping companies to return their shipping lines and inform the merchants of that.

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