Soaring airfreight rates see Dhaka cargo being moved via China
Bangladeshi freight forwarders have started sending air cargo to the US west coast via China, ...
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Exporting vegetables and other cargo from Bangladesh to the UK has been suspended for the last ten days as the approved explosive detection scanner (EDS) at Dhaka Airport has failed again.
All goods bound for the UK must be inspected by the EDS and traders say that, on average, around 10-12 tonnes of vegetables are exported to the UK when the EDS is operational.
Since the machine broke again, only around two tonnes has reached the UK, and that was via Qatar ...
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