News / Around 200 trucks queueing at Dhaka Airport – but Chittagong resumes flights

Some 200 trucks are waiting outside the airport Credit: Syed Md Bakhtiar

Some 200 vehicles are waiting outside Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, which is undergoing a perfect storm of construction works, high export demand and failing scanners.

Kabir Ahmed, president of the Bangladesh Freight Forwarders Association (BAFFA), said due to the absence of scheduled flights, exporters were almost fully dependent on freighter aircraft, which are not operating regularly to the country.

“This has caused a congestion of cargo at the airport,” he told The Loadstar.

Mr Ahmed said the peak season for Bangladeshi exporters, combined with congestion ...