Bangladesh’s imports may be costlier due to freight charges

The global shipping crisis has fueled freight charges, thus making the country’s imported items costlier, businesses said on Friday. Shipping schedules around the world were disrupted by the pandemic, compounded by the scarcity of empty containers. Bangladesh is highly dependent on imports-industrial raw materials, intermediate goods and consumers goods. Business people expressed the fear that the importers will pass the additional costs of higher freight charges on to the consumers.

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