Bangladesh’s apex garment makers’ body, BGMEA, has called on Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) to relax its recent order as per which it has been made mandatory that a vessel should leave the port within 48 hours of departure.
According to media reports, the BGMEA has written a letter to the CPA in this direction recently requesting it to relax the decree keeping in mind exports from Bangladesh, especially the readymade garment sector.
The BGMEA letter further, reportedly, underlined the order is applicable for the vessels, carrying less than 1,500 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) of containers even as it maintained some vessels have already left the port without taking some booked goods as a result of the directive, which is impacting shipments while they named HR Aari and Hermann Scheper, which have, reportedly, left the port on 1 June without carrying 116 TEUs and 11 TEUs of goods, respectively, following the new directive from the CPA.
