News / Shipper relief as PSA Singapore lifts ban on Bangladesh hydrogen peroxide

BM Container Depot Inland Depot near Chittagong.

Bangladesh exporters breathed a sigh of relief after Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) ended its nine-week ban on hydrogen peroxide going through its terminals.

The ban was imposed in June, nine days after a deadly fire at a container depot in Chittagong, and brought Bangladesh’s $22m hydrogen peroxide export business to a halt. Singapore is Bangladesh’s main transhipment port for the chemical.

PSA lifted restrictions after the inventory level for hydrogen peroxide had been closely monitored and kept within safe levels.

When PSA ...