In order to support the importers of Tsunami
aid, SAGT has already granted storage waivers amounting to over
1 million US$. These include 240 twenty-foot containers and 228
forty-foot containers amounting to a total of 468 containers.
Great efforts were made by SAGT to track and
contact the relevant consignees in order to get the rest of the
Tsunami cargo cleared. However, because of the poor response,
there are still over 300 containers of uncleared Tsunami cargo
at SAGT.
After a lengthy discussion with the Government
authorities (SLPA, Dept. of Social Services & Presidential
Secretariat), it was decided that uncleared containers carrying
Tsunami cargo to be treated as abandoned cargo and handed over
to the Dept. of Social Services through SLPA for disposal as per
the SLPA Act and the Agreement between SLPA and SAGT.
