The first meeting of the Board of Directors of Shippers’ Council of Bangladesh (SCB) for the term 2022 and 2023 was held on Tuesday in its own office’s conference room in Dhanmondi.
The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Md Rezaul Karim, reads a press release.
At the first meeting, the newly elected Board of Directors adopted SCB's annual action plan and approved the minutes of the previous meeting, accounts statement and new membership & nominated the signatories for the SCB Bank Accounts.
The meeting discussed problems and remedies of trade and business in the current situation. It was also discussed that the traders are facing losses due to the sudden increase in ocean freight of export goods by the ship owners.
The meeting expressed deep concern over the issue and immediately demanded the concerned authorities to fix the ocean freight at a reasonable rate.
Senior Vice Chairman Md Ariful Ahsan; Vice-Chairman AKM Aminul Mannan (Khokon) and Directors Md Munir Hossain, Arzu Rahman Bhuiyan, Syed Md Bakhtiar, Md Nurussafa Babu, Ziaul Islam, Ganesh Chandra Saha and Ataur Rahman Khan also attended the board meeting.
