Two foreign merchant ships have finally been able to berth at the ​​Mongla seaport after facing a five-day delay due to navigability issues.

Operations at the country’s premier Chattogram sea port have resumed after around 35 hours with a countrywide work abstention enforced by a section of logistics service providers being called off yesterday afternoon.

Most of the operations at Chittagong port remain suspended for the second consecutive day today, as a faction of owners and workers of goods transport are observing a countrywide 72-hour work abstention since yesterday.

Around 400 trucks carrying imported goods from India are waiting to unload goods at the Burimari land port of Patgram upazila in Lalmonirhat due to a shortage of space in customs’ warehouses.

Several hundred trucks have been waiting outside the Banglabandha land port for the past 12 days for space to be made available for exports to be offloaded on the Indian side.

China’s exports unexpectedly grew at a faster pace in August thanks to solid global demand, helping take some of the pressure off the world’s second-biggest economy as it navigates its way through headwinds from several fronts. 

An overall decline in the country’s foreign trade last year for the pandemic brought the Chattogram port down nine places in the latest ranking of Lloyd’s List “One Hundred Container Ports 2021” analysing annual container transport of 2020.

The Banglabandha land port in Rangpur’s Panchagarh district collected a record-high amount of revenue in fiscal 2020-21.

The construction of the Bay Terminal, a long-awaited project of the Chittagong port, is gaining momentum after slowing down due to the coronavirus pandemic as the government looks to complete it by 2024.

Another privately built jetty has come to the aid of the Chattogram port as it allowed the country’s largest seaport to use the facility to berth bulk vessels carrying heavy items.

Trade through the Banglabandha land port resumed on Saturday after remaining suspended for 12 days marking Eid-ul-Azha.   

A National Board of Revenue’s (NBR’s) temporary permission to shift import-laden containers from the Chattogram port to private inland container depots (ICDs) as a decongestion effort seems to have borne no fruit.

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) yesterday urged the government to allow them to reopen all factories, including export-oriented industries, citing that export might suffer severely for the continued restriction.

A Colombo-bound vessel carrying export containers has been kept impounded at the Chattogram port’s outer anchorage for the last eight days by Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) following a High Court order.

Import containers are piling up at an alarming rate at Chattogram port due to the worst delivery during the Eid holidays and the subsequent poor release of goods for the fresh lockdown, which could cause congestion anew.

A cargo vessel yesterday became the first to berth at the second jetty being constructed for unloading coal for the under-construction coal-based power plant at Matarbari in Moheskhali upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

China’s exports grew much faster than expected in June, as solid global demand led by easing lockdown measures and vaccination drives worldwide eclipsed virus outbreaks and port delays.

MRDI has launched a project “Exploring Young Mind: News Literacy and Ethics in Child Reporting” in partnership with the National Human Rights Commission

Parents, guardians and community members need to be more aware about their children and also engage themselves in issues that make girls vulnerable, said speakers yesterday at an event.

Customs intelligence officials at Chittagong Port yesterday seized 18 containers of imported limestone and calcium