Thanks to the ongoing transport workers’ strike at one of the 19 private ICDs or off-docks in Chittagong, exports, especially those that are meant for the upcoming festival season in the West, are being hit because of the same.
Media reports maintained this adding the strike has rolled into sixth day on Tuesday (5 October) even as around 2,536 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEUs) of export containers worth around Taka 650 crore have piled up at the KDS Logistics Ltd., as workers protest the inland container depot’s labour law violation even if the transport maintained they were in talks with the private ICD while Director at the Bangladesh Freight Forwarders Association, Khairul Alam Sujon, reportedly, stated that export boxes that are stuck at KDS Logistics now mostly contain apparel items and are meant for the US and European markets.
Meanwhile, speaking to the media, BGMEA Vice-President Rakibul Alam, reportedly, maintained that ‘entrepreneurs are poised to incur a huge loss thanks to the non-stop strike’, while, reportedly, adding that the situation will slip out of control if not dealt with and resolved within the next couple of days.