Over 1,000 machinery makers of 32 countries are expected to join the 18th Dhaka International Textile and Garments Machinery Exhibition

They are: energy shortage, inflation, economic downturn, inequality, public debt and unemployment

The four-day exhibition began on Jan 9 in Germany

The deposits in no-frills accounts hit Tk 3,849 crore in Jul-Sep quarter

Exports decreased by 1.06% to $5.3 billion

Maersk suspending its vessels' passage through a key Red Sea strait for 48 hours, following an attack by Yemeni rebels on one of its merchant ships

Abu Dhabi (AD) Ports Group has offered to invest $1 billion to construct a multipurpose terminal, one of four under Bay Terminal, in a joint venture with Chittagong Port Authority (CPA), said CPA Chairman Rear Admiral Mohammad Sohail yesterday.

Abu Dhabi (AD) Ports Group has offered to invest $1 billion to construct a multipurpose terminal, one of four under Bay Terminal, in a joint venture with Chittagong Port Authority (CPA), said CPA Chairman Rear Admiral Mohammad Sohail today.

For the second year in a row, the Chattogram seaport may face a drop in annual container throughput due to frequent declines in monthly container handling.

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.