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🤝 Trade & Commerce
Chattogram Customs House seized 467 consignments and filed 270 cases over suspected false declarations in Q1 FY27, recovering Tk 58.2 crore as enforcement jumped 83.6 percent year on year.
🚢 Logistics & Shipping
⚡ Breaking Civil Aviation Minister Rashiduzzaman Millat confirms Bangladesh is buying 14 Boeing aircraft worth $3.7 billion for Biman Bangladesh Airlines under US-Bangladesh agreement, with additional Airbus and leased aircraft planned.
⚖️ Policy & Regulation
⚡ Breaking Bangladesh Bank introduces comprehensive electronic Foreign Exchange Market Module to automate FX intervention auctions, interbank FX transactions, and reference rate preparation, covering Spot, Forward and Swap transactions.
🤝 Trade & Commerce
⚡ Breaking Industries and Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir announces target of 100+ green-certified ship recycling yards, with 31 currently certified, as government plans Treatment Storage and Disposal Facility with IMO support.
🤝 Trade & Commerce
⚡ Breaking Bangladesh Bank forms Tk 2,000 crore revolving pre-financing fund for frozen food industry at 7% max interest rate, with shrimp exports having fallen nearly 4% YoY to $286 million in FY26.
📊 Economy & Finance
⚡ Breaking Brent crude rises $2.51 to $90.61 per barrel after US forces strike Iran's Larak Island in Strait of Hormuz, drawing retaliation from Tehran against US bases in Jordan as Middle East conflict enters sixth month.
💡 Tech & Innovation
⚡ Breaking Snowtex Group reports 25% productivity gain from AI-driven IoT devices on 10,000 sewing machines, with Sparrow Group, Ha-Meem, DBL Group, Urmi Group and Fakir Fashions planning similar adoption across Bangladesh RMG sector.
🤝 Trade & Commerce
⚡ Breaking NBR issues 12 urgent instructions to customs houses ending overlapping import consignment crosscheck, coordinating CIID and CIC examinations, and strengthening risk-based examination to reduce port clearance time.
📊 Economy & Finance
⚡ Breaking Dollar exchange rate rises to Tk 123.50 from Tk 122 in 10 days, giving importers who hedged future payments up to Tk 1 per dollar advantage, as Bangladesh Bank stays out of spot market.
🌏 Diplomacy & Trade Missions
⚡ Breaking Bangladesh and China prepare to launch new two-tier diplomacy and defence dialogue following PM Tarique Rahman's China visit, with CEIZ industrial zone to attract $500M Chinese investment creating 100,000 jobs.
📊 Economy & Finance
⚡ Breaking Bangladesh Bank posts Tk 25,977 crore net profit in FY26, up Tk 3,357 crore YoY, driven by higher lending to liquidity-strapped banks and returns on reserve fund investments abroad.
🚢 Logistics & Shipping
⚡ Breaking Civil Aviation Minister Rashiduzzaman Millat says HSIA third terminal was merely inaugurated as a building, with machinery not integrated, requiring Tk 902 crore more to clear ADC dues and complete works to begin full operations.
🚢 Logistics & Shipping
⚡ Breaking APM Terminals, subsidiary of AP Moller-Maersk, begins construction of $550 million Laldia Container Terminal at Chattogram's Patenga, with 1 million TEUs annual capacity to be operational by 2030 under 30-year DBFOT model.