Similarly, they said the export bound cargoes which had been held up for the lack of transportations at the manufacturing units and dry ports also started reaching the ports, they added.
"There is heavy volume of transports at Karachi harbour's east and west wharfs from the early morning as truckers restarted loading and discharging of cargoes at the harbour," they said. However, they said, the Nato military vehicles which had been loaded on trucks for the last several days are standing at the east wharf of Karachi port, may move off to their cross border destinations in the next 12 hours.
To a question, they said that there have been no halts of loading and unloading of cargo from trucks due to rain. "The work continued the whole day and rain did not affect the operations," they said. They said that the volume of transports was too high which at times resulted in traffic chaos at east and west wharfs of the port. "It is a complete resumption of work by the transporters at harbours," they said.
On Thursday at about 1:15am the transporters and government reached an agreement, according to which all the key issues which the truckers are facing will be solved. "After the government's guarantees, transporters called off their strike," transporters said. Exporters had urged the government for resolving the transporters key issues with a view to end the deadlock which had hampered shipments of about Rs 1 billion cargoes.