Mashiur against fees for transit

[Tiki Tam Tam]

On India taking international aid during natural calamities, it is correct that India did = as during the tsunami that hit India,


India took zilch and instead, inspite of the devastating in India, it still provide assistance including rescue and aid through its Navy. Now, that is something indeed!!


Pretty strong argument and hardly anything weak!

Pakistan has not given transit facilities to India for goods to Afghanistan and so that is a canard to say it has.

Has Bangladesh asked for transit facilities for goods to Pakistan?

 

[Yeti]

surely that is what Bangladeshis are asking business is business so what BD is getting out of free transit to India and other such steps

We gave them a nice $1bn loan with low % interest payment and also with the increase in trade between Tripura and Bangladesh, the Centre is considering a state government proposal for opening border markets and introducing flights on the Agartala-Dhaka-Chittagong routes.


http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=130783&date=2011-03-30

Mutual cooperation to boost Bangladesh-India relations

 

[ares]

surely that is what Bangladeshis are asking business is business so what BD is getting out of free transit to India and other such steps

But I did tell, they are asking for money 10,00 Tk/container ..approx $144/ container.. Each container can carry 27 tons of cargo.
So if we send hundred containers to north east every day for an year..they will make $5.2 million per year...which is nothing compared to what they can earn by land based exports to Nepal and Bhutan.

 

[Spring Onion]

On India taking international aid during natural calamities, it is correct that India did = as during the tsunami that hit India,

If India took aid during natural calamities then its a stupidest argument when Bharati members come and taunt Bangladeshis over similar international aid receiving. Period.

Pakistan has not given transit facilities to India for goods to Afghanistan and so that is a canard to say it has.

First India giving BD a transit route to Pakistan is not at all our demand so coming up with silly notions of bringing us into is uncalled for.

ABOVE All i wonder how ill informed Indian members here are about Pakistan giving trade route to India which we already gave so you guys better go and read some recent development (Although personally i am against giving this route to India and i am all waiting for our current govt to go and we should block all such facilities to India with immediate affect)

Has Bangladesh asked for transit facilities for goods to Pakistan?

Yup they did.

 

[ares]

^Pls do provide source.. where Pakistan has provided land based transit corridor for Indian good to Afghanistan.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

India took no aid during the tsunami.

zilch means Zero!

English!

 

[Bang Galore]

But I did tell, they are asking for money 10,00 Tk/container ..approx $144/ container.. Each container can carry 27 tons of cargo.
So if we send hundred containers to north east every day for an year..they will make $5.2 million per year...which is nothing compared to what they can earn by land based exports to Nepal and Bhutan.

..and nothing at all when they consider the goodwill earned through such an action but goodwill hunting has a different connotation here with the BD members on PDF.

This guy Mashiur Rahman is one smart cookie, not only does he understand that there is nothing much to be gained through transit fees, it also seems that he reads PDF. Why else would he say this?

"Had our country been an uncivilised one or our leaders been illiterate then we could have asked for the fees, but that's not the case,"

A message for the overzealous BD members here perhaps?

 

[Ammyy]

You are living in the past. the trade has already been started and more routes have also been opened to bharatis.

anyway coming back to the topic its BD who is asking for trade route to Pakistan NOT us.


So tell me in clear words are you going to provide the trade route to Bangladesh or not?

can you post any link that verify your claim

 

[Yeti]

There has been no deal on land access through Afganistan

 

[idune]

Transit is NOT a business, it involves strategic, broader economic, industrial, diseases and defense issues. ONLY risk and danger involved with transit and NO benefit at all. Given size and situation, Bangladesh should never considered giving transit to India. Awami regime committed first sin by using indian line that transit is an business issue. Even that is utter lie.

Giving transit to india was never a business issue. And whatever was given to india is illegal by many counts. India can enjoy their looting in Bangladesh using Awami regime but in the long run they are set to loose. India was never been trusted in Bangladesh and never will be. That is india's own making.

 

[fallstuff]

That was an incomplete post.

 

[ares]

^ And your point is??..why should you be concerned about container handling charges of Karachi port?..you won't be handling anything ..trucks will be Indian..truck drivers will be Indian..so will be the containers..they will be loaded on Indian inland dock and discharged again on an Indian inland dock in north east..the only thing that will be Bangladeshi will the roads.

 

[fallstuff]

Container Fees:

--- Handling fees

----- Insurance.

----- Road Impact fee.

----- Access fee

----- Tariffs


----- Taxes

 

[ares]

Container Fees:

--- Handling fees

----- Insurance.

----- Road Impact fee.

----- Access fee

----- Tariffs


----- Taxes

Do you know what these terms mean or you just copy pasted them?

Container Fees:

--- Handling fees- Container loaded in India ..discharged in India ..bangladesh not in picture.

----- Insurance.- it can be privided by Indian insurance companies..if the owner wants.
But do tell how may people in Bangladesh ..get their goods insured before they send it from one part of the country to another..is pilferage rate in your country so high?

----- Road Impact fee -Covered in Transit fee

----- Access fee- Access fee for what?

----- Tariffs - Tariffs on what..we are not transferring any good to your country.


----- Taxes--Again what taxes these good are not landing in Bagngladesh.

 

[fallstuff]

To the people that are reading the forum, ignore the trolls. Lets keep the conversation civil.

Transit can be by sea, river and land ports.


So there has to be well defined schedule of Handling fees for each service or fraction there of. ( loading, unloading, storage). Handling fees pays for the facility and services used.

Insurance documents should be verifiable.

No vehicle runs or goods transported without paying impact fees. Impact fees pay for the maintainance of the road.( foreign or domestic).

Inspection fees to check for weight, security, and health issues.

A fee must be paid to access the roads.

Tariff will guarantee the products would not be dumped somewhere in Bangladesh and protect against unfair advantage. Indian are known to invent tariffs

Taxes for all the services used.


See folks in the end it is about demand. Bangladesh has no demand for services like this in foreign land, India has. India wants service, India pays for it. Or they can keep taking the scenic route thru the NE. If AL agrees to hurt BD interests they will be thrown out We all know the choices are simple.