AMMAN — Aqaba has resumed loading
containers for overland shipping, with approximately 1,100 containers processed
at the city’s container port between Saturday and Sunday morning — a number
exceeding normal loading figures,
Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority
President Nayef Bakhit told Al-Mamlaka TV on Sunday.
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Between Saturday
midnight and Sunday noon, 1,058 trucks were loaded in Aqaba “and we expect that
the number will increase in the afternoon” as the number of trucks coming from
Amman rises, with pictures showing large numbers of trucks on Wadi Araba Road
and the Desert Road heading towards the port city, Bakhit said.
A second lane
has been opened at the container port for processing the trucks, and customs
procedures are being conducted in the port yards, with a large number of
containers already inspected, he said.
“There is no
need for the containers to go through the customs yards or be inspected a
second time. Instead, they can leave the port directly to head towards their
destinations,” the president noted.
Meanwhile, truck
and public transport drivers in
Maan governorate are continuing their strike —
which entered its 15th consecutive day on Sunday — demanding that fuel prices
and taxes be reduced, according to AmmanNet.
A cautious calm
prevailed in protest areas following the killing of an officer on Thursday
evening when he was shot in the head in the Husseiniyah area of Maan — an event
that coincided with protests by the truck drivers over the hike in fuel prices
and taxes imposed on the commodity.
Interior
Minister Mazen Faraya said in a press conference on Friday that areas
experiencing protests “will witness a heavy security presence” after the
killing of the officer, adding: “The government will not allow these abuses to
continue. Security deployments will be strengthened in locations where riots
are taking place and where drivers are being attacked.”
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