Port and Shipping
Maersk suspends vessels' passage through Red Sea strait for 48 hours
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 Ports Group seeks to invest $1b in Bay Terminal
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.
AD Ports offers to invest $1b in Ctg port
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.
Container handling to fall for second consecutive year
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.
Red Sea impasse to push up cost of importers-exporters
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.
Shipping dept forms committee to solve disputes
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.
Lighter Vessel Charter Dispute / Shipping dept calls owners to sit for solution today
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.
AFC Agro, S Korean firm team up to make molecular diagnostic kits
The kits will help in detection of dengue, chikungunya and other viruses
42 top Ctg taxpayers honoured
The port city’s income tax department handed over the best taxpayer awards
Renata all set to enter Australian pharma market
Levonorgestrel 1.5mg, a contraceptive pill, will be the inaugural product
Single point mooring transports 60,000 tonnes diesel in 35 hours
Earlier, it would take 10 days
Shipbuilders get more time to reschedule loans
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.
‘Time for Bangladesh to diversify export basket to UK’
Bangladeshi high commissioner to UK says in meeting with FBCCI president
Sino-Malaysian firm to invest $14.55 million in Bepza EZ
Vernon & Oliver Furniture Company will produce spring mattress, foam mattress
Tk 12,500 finalised as minimum RMG wage
The salary structure will now have four grades in place of five
‘Summer onion growers to get more incentive’
government is now emphasising production of summer onion to achieve self-sufficiency for the crop
