Grameenphone on Wednesday launched a vessel tracking system for Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation at the telecom operators’ headquarters in the city. Through this innovative system, BIWTC will be able to track water vessels like ferry, streamer and tug.
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Fog cripples waterway, road links
Ferry services suspended A blanket of dense fog shrouded different regions of the country crippling traffic on the highways and inland waterways from Friday night to Saturday morning. Low visibility forced the suspension of ferry services between Paturia and Daulatdia as well as Mawa and Kawrakandi, linking key highways, for more than 11 hours beginning ... Read more
New waterbuses in the pipeline for capital: BIWTC chairman
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) is about to start a new waterbus service on the water routes around the city. BIWTC chairman Gulam Mostafa Kamal told The Independent that an order has already been given to Dhaka Dockyard for building four new waterbuses at a cost of Tk 50 lakh each. The new buses ... Read more
BIWTC faces loss in ferry operations
Poor Navigability BIWTC faces loss in ferry operations Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation is incurring a loss of about Tk 16 lakh a day for the last one week due to the disruption of ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route in the Padma for poor navigability, BIWTC officials said. The ferries now carry vehicles less than ... Read more
Dredging gone hibernating
Gross negligence of water transport authority led to serious navigability loss in Padma Gross negligence in conducting timely dredging to keep the ferry channels in the Padma navigable has led to the disruption of ferry services between Mawa and Paturia, causing sufferings to thousands of people. Officials of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC), which ... Read more
Ferries run below their capacity
The ferries plying on the Paturia-Daulatdia route were forced to cut down their capacity by more than fifty percent due to low navigability of Padma River. The transportation of goods-laden trucks has been suffering a huge setback due to the capacity reduction coupled with frequent suspension of ferry services on the
Touts cash in on ferry mess
Frequent suspension of ferry service on Paturia-Daulatdia and Mawa-Kawrakandi routes has been disrupting communication between Dhaka and 21 south-western districts for the last few days and some unscrupulous people are taking full advantage of the situation. Ferry service on both the routes was suspended for several hours yesterday since several