News / Over-dependence on Maersk partly to blame for Chittagong export backlog 

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Bangladeshi apparel makers are partly blaming the over-reliance of buyers on Maersk Line for the large volumes of export cargo stuck off-dock in Chittagong.

Yesterday, some 15,553 teu of export containers were lying off-dock, 70% of them waiting for Maersk, shippers said at a meeting at the port.

Some of the containers had been waiting for nearly a month, said Ruhul Amin Sikder, secretary of the Bangladesh Inland Container Depots Association, adding that normally, only around 6,000 teu would be stored at the ...