Importers and exporters in Bangladesh started to feel the pinch of the transit disruption through the Red Sea route as major shipping lines announced, and in some cases even began implementing, additional surcharges to cover costs for re-routing their vessels around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope following attacks by the Yemen-based Houthi militant group on the Indian Ocean.

A committee will be formed comprising representatives of all the stakeholders and regulatory authorities to find a way forward by resolving the prevailing disputes among lighter vessel owners regarding transport of import cargo from the Chattogram port on inland waterways.

The Department of Shipping (DoS) has called a meeting at its Dhaka office today in the afternoon for lighter vessel owners to sit and fix a rift in a platform which coordinates the renting out of the vessels in rotation.

The govt targets achieving one crore direct taxpayers by 2026, he says

Its EPS stood at Tk 2.75 in the negative in Jul-Sep

They will operate separately under the Inland Vessel Owners Association of Chattogram

The event is going on at Intercontinental Hotel in Dhaka

Bangladeshi exporters are apprehending prolonged delays in shipments and a surge in transport costs following recent attacks on commercial vessels on the Red Sea

A meeting between the shipping secretaries of Bangladesh and India is scheduled to begin in a Dhaka hotel on December 20.

CPA is hopeful of signing agreements with two global firms by June next year for the construction of two of three container terminals under a mega Bay Terminal project

Fesco introduced a container service in Bangladesh as a part of its push to facilitate direct shipping from the Indian subcontinent to Russia.

Industry experts say at a workshop

IMF will give $689 million, ADB $400 million and other sources $220 million

The kits will help in detection of dengue, chikungunya and other viruses

The port city’s income tax department handed over the best taxpayer awards

Levonorgestrel 1.5mg, a contraceptive pill, will be the inaugural product

Earlier, it would take 10 days

The new price will be effective from November 30

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) today extended the deadline for shipbuilders to reschedule their defaulted loans by one month through a down payment of 2.5 percent.

Bangladeshi high commissioner to UK says in meeting with FBCCI president