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 ...
Boxes pile up at during previous congestion at Dhaka airport Credit: Syed Md Bakhtiar
Air cargo flows through Bangladesh’s Dhaka Airport are again facing severe challenges, due to the malfunction of explosive-detection scanners (EDSs).
Only one of the airport’s EDS machines is working, as air cargo demand and rates out of the country have significantly increased this year.
“It is utterly impossible to meet the requirements of freight forwarders with only one operational EDS,” Kabir Ahmed, president, Bangladesh Freight Forwarders Association (BAFFA), wrote to the civil aviation authority yesterday.
Outbound cargo is being stockpiled inside cargo villages, ...
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