The Maldives keen to import clay from Bangladesh

[The Ronin]

The Maldives has shown interest in importing clay from Bangladesh.

The Maldives' Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid expressed the country's eagerness during a conversation over the phone with his Bangladeshi counterpart Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Monday, a foreign ministry press release said.

Momen assured Shahid of providing assistance and requested the Maldivian government to import Covid-19 medical equipment, including PPE, from Bangladesh.

During the discussion, they both focused on boosting trade and business relations between the two South Asian countries.

The foreign ministers agreed on introducing a direct shipping link between Bangladesh and the Maldives to enhance trade relations.

During the talks, they also agreed to continue their mutual cooperation at international fora.

Abdulla Shahid praised the success of the Bangladesh government as well as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visionary leadership in tackling the Covid-19 situation.

The Maldives will continue its all-out support for the repatriation of the displaced Rohingyas in Myanmar, he said.

Later, the Maldivian minister expressed his eagerness to visit Bangladesh in the near future.

The Maldives keen to import clay from Bangladesh

The foreign ministers agreed on introducing a direct shipping link between Bangladesh and the Maldives to enhance trade relations

tbsnews.net

 

[SpaceMan18]

2040 Bangaldesh : exporting indigenous made smartphones and automobiles

 

[mb444]

2040 Bangaldesh : exporting indigenous made smartphones and automobiles

Smartphones already a reality.....automobiles might take time...but bikes is the next frontier for export in my view.

 

[bluesky]

Why Maldives need soil rom Bangladesh?

The Maldives, an island country, is slowly going under the rising sea because of man-made environmental pollution, and the Govt of Japan was to build a power station there based on renewable energy.

A few years before, I have read also a news that Maldives wants to import river silts from BD in order to raise the level of its islands so as to save this nation from the onslaught of rising sea.

I have good reasons to believe the present approach of importing 'clay' refers to its previous approach. It wants to import silt, clay and sand excavated from BD river system and use these materials to raise the level of its islands.

The Maldives is a Paradise on Earth and millions of tourists visit that country. I understand that the rich Western countries and international organizations will financially and technologically support BD-Maldives initiative. Both countries will be benefited.

 

[SpaceMan18]

Smartphones already a reality.....automobiles might take time...but bikes is the next frontier for export in my view.

The quality of the smartphones ain't that comparable to Korean or American cause of money for R&D issues by Walton

 

[Destranator]

In 2011, on behalf of a Japanese company (Hitachi Ltd.), I wrote a feature on how the Maldives, an island country, is slowly going under the rising sea because of man-made environmental pollution, and the Govt of Japan was to build a power station there based on renewable energy.

A few years before, I have read also a news that Maldives wants to import river silts from BD in order to raise the level of its islands so as to save this nation from the onslaught of rising sea.

I have good reasons to believe the present approach of importing 'clay' refers to its previous approach. It wants to import silt, clay and sand excavated from BD river system and use these materials to raise the level of its islands.

The Maldives is a Paradise on Earth and millions of tourists visit that country. I understand that the rich Western countries and international organizations will financially and technologically support BD-Maldives initiative. Both countries will be benefited.

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All that is good but first BD needs to figure out how to save its own a** from climate change.

I am aware that Bangladesh's landmass is actually net increasing (new land created from silt deposit - land lost to river erosion) but the displacement is wrecking havoc.

We need to to start raising the levels of our coastal and riverine regions in a sustainable manner.

 

[bluesky]

All that is good but first BD needs to figure out how to save its own a** from climate change.

I am aware that Bangladesh's landmass is actually net increasing (new land created from silt deposit - land lost to river erosion) but the displacement is wrecking havoc.

We need to to start raising the levels of our coastal and riverine regions in a sustainable manner.

No, not exactly. The two issues are different. Maldives needs soil to raise its ground level to neutralize the rise of sea level due to environmental overheating.


Japan wanted to build a power generation plant by using the difference in the temperatures between the surface of sea and the deep sea water flowing from the North Sea/Pole. Hitachi Ltd. is a technology company in Japan from whom the GoJ sought technical help to build such a plant.

It is not that the Maldives needs such a power plant, because it would not solve the issue of sea rise, but it wanted the world to understand how dire the situation is.

The Maldives wants to import soil from BD to offset the rise of sea by raising the ground elevation of its islands. But, BD is another matter that needs a separate approach for the solution of rise of water in the BoB.

Note that BD needs to dispose of the additional soil from dredging the large rivers. Imports by the Maldives is a good way to do so.

 

[SpaceMan18]

Y'all really think the leader cares for this country , we desperately need to stop Bangaldesh from sinking in the future.

 

[bluesky]

Y'all really think the leader cares for this country , we desperately need to stop Bangaldesh from sinking in the future.

No, BD leaders do not care for their people. The govt leaders are waiting for foreign donors to come with trillions of dollars to solve the sinking issue from which they will take out the butter, Ghee and cheese to support their jobless sons and daughters in US, Canada and Malaysia.

 

[The Ronin]

They discussed the same stuff in 2016-17. Will anything really materialize?

Maldives wants to import sand from Bangladesh

The Maldives wants to import sand from Bangladesh, its new high commissioner in Dhaka has said.

bdnews24.com