India-Bangladesh Trade: The Prospect of Inland Water Transportation System
Author: Khandaker Rasel Hasan, M Ziauddin Alamgir, M Shahedul IslamDOI: doi.org/10.70279/bmj-v2-i1-1104
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India, the third largest trading partner of Bangladesh, the most neighbor country having a transboundary waterway which connects some of the growth centres in India and almost all of the growth centres in Bangladesh. Despite having most of the advantages of modal choice covering least cost, environment friendly, congestion free and safe as well as institutional arrangement that is the Protocol on Inland Water Trade and Transport, the trade between Bangladesh and India through Inland Water Transport (IWT) is negligible. For decades the trade through IWT was mostly limited to one commodity which is fly ash, but few shipments of containers between these two countries this year is remarkable.This paper would institute with an overview of the trade pattern between Bangladesh and India, the transportation modal share, and an overview of the potential IWT system of Bangladesh and some parts of India that have a trans-boundary link. And then it would try to analyse the challenges that hinder the trade through IWT mostly the lack of infrastructure, investment, awareness, and longer lead time, lack of service providers, imbalance trade, inflexibility, water depth and institutional weaknesses. In parallel an examination of the development programmes that have been undertaken or in plan to upgrade the IWT in both the countries could create the opportunity for the entrepreneurs of both the countries to offer alternative transport logistic solution reducing the total cost of manufacturing.
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| Article Keyword | Trade, Inland Water Transport, Transport Logistics. |
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