Even as various reports lately have suggested towards an increasing volume of fresh work orders making their way to Bangladesh apparel sector, additional container-handling orders are received by off-docks around Chittagong in another signal of Bangladesh’s significant export growth.
Media reports maintained this adding, people in know of things suggest, the trend of increased exports will continue in the near future too.
Meanwhile, speaking to the media, Secretary of BICDA or Bangladesh Inland Container Depots Association, Ruhul Amin Sikder, reportedly, said most of the depots were receiving inquiries about their capability to handle additional exports even as he mentioned names like DHL, Maersk Logistics and Services, Expo Freight, Kuehne Nagel and DHV have in recent days, reportedly, come with offers for handling growing volumes of cargoes.
“Each and every forwarder has additional export volume now…,” further added the BICDA Secretary even if according to reports, the 19 off-docks in Chittagong, in the first two weeks of this March, handled 34,901 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) of export containers, which is around 25.50 per cent higher than the 27,809 TEUs handled in the same period last year.
