Stepping up process to select operator for SPM
To save both time and money in unloading crude and refined petroleum products from deep-sea oil tankers at the outer anchorage to an onshore storage facility, the then-autocratic regime in 2015 took up the Single-Point Mooring (SPM) project at an estimated cost of about Tk 50 billion. A Chinese company...
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Living with donor conditions
Complaints about donor conditionality are a staple of political conversation in Bangladesh. The common argument is that foreign lenders use their money to impose their preferences, attaching conditions to loan disbursements that do not always match the country's needs or ambitions. This concern is not without basis, yet successive governments...
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Are we ready for a 4-day workweek?
In recent years, nations like the United Kingdom and Japan have experimented with fewer working days without sacrificing output, drawing attention to the concept of a four-day workweek. It is worth considering whether such a model could work in Bangladesh's private sector as the nation moves closer to becoming a...
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Gas crisis suffocating industries
If you walk into almost any manufacturing unit in Gazipur, Ashulia, or Narayanganj today, you will not hear the usual deafening hum of machinery. Instead, you are likely to find factory managers staring anxiously at pressure gauges. The harsh reality on the ground is that the ongoing gas crisis is...
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