Using alternative route to make shipment of export cargo is helping Bangladesh to lower outbound container congestion to some extent, avoiding congested Colombo and Singapore ports.
Some Bangladeshi exporters are now sending containers from Chittagong to the Indian port of Krishnapatnam from where boxes are shipped to mother vessels which directly sail to Europe and America.
On 9 July, a vessel with 515TEU of export containers left Chittagong for Krishnapatnam port, while earlier in June,...
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