Opposing the decision of ICDs to set higher container handling charges — on 4 November, private ICDs increased handling charges by 23 per cent on import and export goods while on 11 August, private ICDs increased the handling charge on imported goods by 35 per cent citing the fuel oil price hike — the BGMEA has written recently to the Ministry of Shipping seeking its intervention to contain this hike by the ICDs.
As per reports, in the letter to the Minister of State for shipping, the apex garment makers’ body in Bangladesh opposed the decision of ICDs to set higher container handling charges even as the letter mentioned as per ICD policy-2016, a tariff committee needs to be formed to set the charges of ICDs and had requested the Ministry to take urgent steps to restrain the ICDs from doing so to aid Bangladesh’s export growth amidst the ongoing domestic economic crisis.
Meanwhile, speaking to the media, BGMEA Acting President Md Shahidullah Azim, reportedly, underlined consequently, export-import businesses in Bangladesh suffered adversely.
