Long-route bus service from Benapole resumed this afternoon six days after the transport owners and workers enforced an indefinite strike demanding permission to use the Benapole port terminal.

The strike was called off after the shipping authorities accepted demands of the Transport Owners Association and the Workers’ Organisation, said Milan Hossain, manager of Ashiq Sagar Transport.

The long-distance bus movement were suspended from November 22. The strike was called as the administration had relocated the bus terminal from near the land port’s international check post to the Kagojpukur terminal, located around three kilometres away.

Benapole Transport Managers Association General Secretary Mizanur Rahman said that on November 7 the Sharsha Upazila Administration inaugurated the municipal bus terminal at Kagojpukur in Benapole.

All long-distance transport counters from the Benapole Check Post Land Port Bus Terminal were taken to the municipal bus terminal. But the passport holders feel insecurity while travelling from the terminal.

Passport passengers coming from India also do not feel safe at evening time when they had to travel to the terminal.

Such a decision by the authorities created a conflict of opinion with the owners’ association and transport workers. So they went on the strike.