Recent cross-border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan have also badly disrupted the Afghan Transit trade, causing losses of billions of rupees.
Due to recent clashes between Pak Afghan armed forces, at least 291containers are stranded at the Karachi Port Trust and the Port Muhammad Bin Qasim.
The President of Pak-Afghan Chamber, Junaid Makda, has stated that 500 containers are stuck at the Chamman border, 400 at the Torkham border, 100 containers at the Ghulam Khan, and another 100 containers were also halted at Khalarchi.
He further told that warehouses at the Torkham border are now full and a severe backlog has been created, and goods unloaded from ships cannot be cleared further. As a result, no additional cargo can be offloaded.
He noted that hundreds of containers loaded on ships are awaiting to be unloaded at ports, while the goods unloaded from ships were also stranded.
