Ahamedul Karim Chowdhury

The latest hike in fuel prices has already begun rippling through the logistics chain.

Bangladesh spent Tk 15,691 crore developing Payra Port, which remains largely inactive.

Laldia could change what is physically possible at Chattogram port.

For the past several weeks, the effects of the country’s gas crisis have been felt everywhere: factories struggling with inadequate pressure in supply lines, filling stations facing long queues, households receiving little or no pipeline gas, and power plants unable to generate at their full capacity.

Bangladesh is investing heavily in ports, with private operators increasingly entering the sector.

Nine workers died after suspected toxic gas exposure on August 14 while working inside LNG carrier MT Rasi at Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila.

Dredging creates navigation capacity, not logistics demand. Cargo moves because industries produce, farmers harvest, ports generate trade, and consumers create demand. Rivers merely provide one transport corridor within a much larger logistics ecosystem.

A recent dispute over empty containers at Chattogram port has brought to renewed focus a deeper problem in Bangladesh’s trade logistics system