GRA to dispose of unclaimed cargo on city wharves

Containers being stacked on a wharf in Georgetown

The Guyana Revenue Authority, according to reports, will shortly be moving to sell by auction or dispose of by dumping a quantity of want of entry (unclaimed) cargo, which has been lying on local wharves for several years.

Some of the cargo which the GRA plans to dispose of has reportedly been lying on wharves for “as many as four to five years” creating serious “space problems” in circumstances where an increasing amount of cargo was being shipped to Guyana.

Specific procedures associated with the particular identification of the cargo to be sold or dumped coupled with the acquisition of permission