Five ships floating with 150,000 products
The permission to board the ship in the jeep is not in conflict with the management of the agency.
Marco Shipping has moved to High Court.Five vessels consisting of containers floating in Bangladesh's watershed with raw materials and commercial products in nearly 20 industrial areas, including garments sector. When these ships can be thrown into the jetty, there is no guarantee. The complexity of these five ships will not work in the management of the local agency, and the complexity of the ships is not in the jets.
The importers are suffering from conflict between the two companies about not getting the job of managing the agency. According to officials of the ship company officials, there are 6,13 single containers of imported goods from around 1.5 thousand industrial and commercial establishments in 13 districts of Chittagong, Dhaka, Gazipur, Mymensingh, Habiganj and Rangpur.
A 'MV TAR Aramis' of these five ships floated with the goods for 23 days when the ships coming to the port were delayed for two to three days when the businessmen started to panic. Apart from this, MV Thrasaki is 11 days, Cap Araxes 9 days, MV Charlie 8 days and Cap Orient floating in the water bodies of Bangladesh for 5 days.
Many of these factories are already being interrupted due to lack of raw materials of the imported industry. Most of the problem is the garment industry owners. Because, they get three to five weeks of time to produce products. Although most of the time the product is produced, they are not getting raw materials. Among them are Envoy Textile, Regency Garments, Beximco Fashion, Phiyat Fashion, Millennium Textile, etc. Besides, there are imported products of medicine, glass, steel, aluminum, ceramic, paint, cement, decoration, paper, polythene, ployd, fertilizer, plastic, car accessories, tires, furnishings, tea processing and shoe manufacturing companies.
Nasir Uddin Chowdhury, Chairman of Standing Committee on Ports and Shipping of BGMEA, said: "Foreign buyers will give maximum 25 to 30 days time to produce the product. If it does not enter the factory within 23 days, then there will be no alternative except sending the goods to the aircraft.
Three of these five ships have the raw materials of the BSRM group, which are made of raw scrap and chemicals. Of these 35 container products brought in the ship 'TR Aramis' were not received in 23 days. Tapan Sengupta, Executive Director of BSRM Group, said that due to non-availability of the goods at the time of production, the production was interrupted. Delta Group has imported equipment for Denim Factory in Kashimpur of Gazipur in the same ship. The factory can not be opened due to not getting these equipment.
It has been learned that over 150,000 items of these ships were brought to Unilever, Square Group, Meghna Group, Transcom Group, Apex Tannery, Bashundhara Group, Beximco Group, Navana, Pran-RFL, Abul Khair Group, KDS Group, Partex, GPH, KSRM, Jamuna Group, Berger Paints, Linde Bangladesh, Nestle, Senakalyan Agency, RAK Ceramic, Pedrolo Group etc.
According to customs sources, one of the two organizations in the process of transferring agency management is Messars C Marine Shipping Lines Limited. The other is Marco Shipping Company. C Marin was the agent of Singapore's fir shipping lines, which operates Container ships. On January 31, the contract management agreement of the fir shipping company ended with C Marine Shipping Lines Limited. After that, the foreign company recruited Marco Shipping Company to manage the agency, except C Marin. After the appointment, Marco Shipping appealed to the customs authorities to allow ferry shipping to work on the harbor.
According to the rules, in order to transfer the agency, it is necessary to negotiate the payment of debts and payments with the previous company. Then the customs authorities allow new organizations to administer the agency with joint declarations in the presence of the two parties.
According to this rule, the customs authorities send letters to the joint declaration to both parties. Marco Shipping, giving the customs authorities the acceptance of past, present and future liabilities for the fir shipping company, because C Marin did not issue the joint declaration.
Then on 13th February, Marco Shipping allowed the customs authorities to work temporarily on the port. Customs authorities did not give Marco shipping the final approval, they filed a writ petition in the High Court.