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The administration of the port of Tripoli issued the following statement:
“A report was published in the main mtv news bulletin on Saturday 24th October about the movement of transit into Syria through the port of Tripoli, and as the report contained many incorrect news that would damage the port, its reputation, objectives, Lebanese activities, commercial exchanges, workers and trucks operating there. In this regard, it is important for us to show the following:
1- Goods in transit in all countries are not subject to customs duties, since they do not compete with local goods and are not consumed locally.
2- The economic benefit that reaches Lebanon as well as other transit fees is entered through the income obtained as a result of various logistics services, since the chain of these services begins from the port through the mooring fees and conditioning of the ship, the rates of the merchandise transported by the ship, the rates of unloading the merchandise and its loading in trucks and the rates. The transit, the salaries of the workers, the stefador, the freight forwarders and the consignee, and the transport rates of the trucks whose number is estimated at 90 percent of Lebanese trucks, contrary to what was expressed in their report, and the The economic returns to the Lebanese economy of a ship loaded with 5,000 tons of iron, for example, are not less than one hundred. One thousand US dollars.
3- The passage of these goods through Lebanese territory is a legal transit transit within the framework of the commercial exchange of the private sector for regular goods, and is always carried out without interruption from the airport and the port of Beirut as well as from Tripoli and from all the ports of the countries bordering Syria, and enters the framework of the reconstruction of houses and homes to return to it. Syrian refugees.
4- The transport of these goods is carried out mainly during the day and not under cover of darkness, as indicated in the report, because the process is legal and is carried out in accordance with customs and legal procedures, and customs and the port of Tripoli are among the most public administrations and institutions that are subject to and implement sovereign laws, which are in the national interest.
5- Syrian transit fees for Lebanese trucks to Syria are very small, not exceeding US $ 20, and are paid by the merchant importing the goods and not by the Lebanese truck.
6- The new transit movement has led to the operation of the port, workers and the land transport sector throughout Lebanon, especially in Miniyeh and Akkar, which has stopped working for 10 years and has been paid in US dollars (fresh ).
7- The station report mentioned a change in the certificates of origin, and this matter is impossible to happen as long as there are no customs duties for the goods within Lebanon.
8- The Administration of the Port of Tripoli wishes that the station opens the way to all opinions and publishes its news after reviewing the figures and statistics from its sources, especially regarding the financial and economic returns of the value-added activities that return from transit trade and related to financial returns from logistics and non-customs services, and the number of Lebanese trucks. Working on freight transport and its impact on development in the Tripoli, Minya and Akkar regions, and the importance of transit in the economies of sustainable developing countries.
9- The port of Tripoli wants everyone to approach trade from the beginning to separate politics and their disputes from the economy, and to seize any opportunity in terms of the Lebanese national economic interest and the benefit it reflects in the revitalization of commercial activity in a region devoid of everything and facing a suffocating economic crisis, It is not based on foreign political interests that do not offer a beneficial and financially viable alternative for the homeland and its citizens, especially since the port and its entire family deal in transit with commercial entities individual and ordinary, and ordinary goods and goods that are not prohibited or locally endorsed, such as oil and others, and are transported naturally from Lebanon and from all Lebanese ports. And the airport and ports of neighboring countries to Syria.
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