Rail crisis sees boxes pile up at Dhaka – with Ramadan and Eid looming
Box lines are increasingly concerned that an imbalance in Bangladesh’s rail capacity could cause chaos ...
A forwarder for the UK’s now-defunct Debenhams chain said it was working closely with Bangladeshi suppliers to resolve a non-payment issue.
“Some of the factories are in regular communication with us for assistance,” Mahbub Sarker, head of finance & accounts at Dhaka-based Expo Freight, told The Loadstar.
“We are jointly working to mitigate the issue and assisting the vendors/factories,” he said referring to the latest reports of non-payment of $10.21m owed to Bangladeshi suppliers.
On 5 October, the Debenhams Vendors Community (DVC) claimed ...
'Disastrous' DSV-Schenker merger would 'disrupt European haulage market'
'Chaos after chaos' coming from de minimis changes and more tariffs
List of blanked transpac sailings grows as trade war heats up and demand cools
Shippers in Asia restart ocean shipment bookings – but not from China
India withdraws access for Bangladesh transhipments, in 'very harmful' decision
'Tariff hell' leaves industries in limbo – 'not a great environment to plan'
Asian exporters scramble for ships and boxes to beat 90-day tariff pause
Temporary tariff relief brings on early transpacific peak season
Pre-tariff rush of goods from US to China sees air rates soar, but not for long
De minimis-induced ecommerce demand slump could cripple freighter operators
Forwarders 'allowing the fox into the chicken run' by supporting 'hungry' carriers
Hapag 'took the bigger risk' when it signed up to Gemini, says Maersk
'Restoring America's maritime dominance' – stop laughing at the back of the class
Navigating tariffs: 'like trying to solve a Rubik's cube while colour-blind'
Marginal gains on east-west ocean container routes in a challenging week
Comment on this article