Mongla port, the country’s second biggest seaport, has made a strong comeback as it sees an increased arrival of ships, making it a major gateway for Bangladesh’s overseas trade once again.

The export-import activities between Bangladesh and India through the Benapole Land Port was suspended indefinitely after a strike was called by port users at the Petrapole port in India this morning.

Chattogram Customs House has seized a consignment on charges of laundering Tk 1.6 crore by exporting 22 times more goods than the declaration.

A newly built service jetty, overflow yard and a modern swimming complex were opened at Chittagong port yesterday.

Bangladesh’s premier seaport in Chattogram handled record number of containers in 2021 and also posted over 13 per cent year-on-year growth in container handling.

Bangladesh now has a fleet of 80 oceangoing vessels, a record high since the country’s independence.

Cybercriminals breached the “secure” NBR server to falsely show export of goods worth around Tk 12.78 crore.

Bangladeshi feeder vessel operator HR Lines, a subsidiary of the country’s only container vessel owning firm Karnaphuli Group, is now in the final stage of negotiations with a Chinese shipbuilder over building four 3,000 TEU-capacity vessels.

Traders who import goods from Myanmar through Teknaf land port have become hostage to an organised syndicate at the trade gateway on the southeastern border of the country.

The port city is set to get its first multi-modal container depot in two years, which will enhance Chattogram port’s capacity to handle export-bound and imported goods.

US President Joe Biden was to host a meeting on Wednesday to hail progress in addressing supply chain problems weighing on the economy and threatening the holiday season, while he asks business and union leaders to do more to ease shipping backlogs.

Trade  through Banglabandha, Hili, Birol, Sonahat and Burimari land ports is  set to remain suspended for six days beginning yesterday for Durga Puja,  the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community in Bangladesh and  neighbouring India.

Entrepreneurs in Bangladesh need as many as 39 approvals from various government agencies before their goods are released from Chattogram port, a sad circumstance that hurts businesses, a new report said.

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.