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.

The National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads and Railways (NCPSRR) underscores the need for strengthening mobile court drives against irregularities and mismanagements in services of waterways ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.

Water transport workers will go for an indefinite countrywide strike from Tuesday to press home their 15-point demand including wage hike.

Bad weather takes a toll on the river connectivity throughout Bangladesh today, forcing suspension of operations at several key points.