A comprehensive plan is being worked on by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport to establish a regulatory framework for the loading and movement trucks at all crossings and ports in Lebanon.
This plan will be done by mechanizing work in the offices of the General Directorate of Transport affiliated with the Ministry of Works, which are located at every crossing or port, and linking them to each other.
The Minister of Works in the caretaker government, Ali Hamiyah, revealed to LBCI that the implementation of this plan would allow the Directorate of Land and Maritime Transport to conduct statistics regularly, through which it will show what has left Lebanon and what has entered it, and will provide digital data on the movement of transport trucks, which will contribute to controlling the land ports (Al-Masnaa, Al-Aboudieh, and Al-Arida). Moreover, all the activities of transport trucks throughout the Lebanese territory.
The ministry will be able to identify the owner of the goods being transported in the truck, who loaded them, and monitor and follow up on their movement and schedule.
Hamiyah considered this information essential for those working on security, revealing that work on the plan has begun.
As a first step, and in cooperation with the Refrigerated Trucks Syndicate operating in transit in Lebanon, which provided a donation of $30,000, the Ministry of Works maintained and rehabilitated the customs yard at the Masnaa crossing and provided the offices of the General Directorate of Land and Maritime Transport with solar energy to activate the information link system between the crossing and link it to the General Directorate. for transportation, a particular exit for refrigerated trucks has also been introduced.
It is a step that will enhance the control of smuggling operations and will facilitate the inspection and control of trucks entering and exiting and from Lebanon.
So will this step restore the confidence of the Gulf countries to open the export line from Lebanon again?