Bangladesh to Buy 20 New Dredgers

The Bangladesh government is going to procure 20 dredgers for dredging rivers to keep the waterways navigable.

Of the 20 dredgers, some would be purchased from the local market, and the rest would be imported.

At present, there are 18 dredgers, and three more will be collected this year.

The existing government and private dredgers can only dredge 250 lakh cubic meters of waterways each year. When the new dredgers are available, more 232 lakh cubic meters of waterways could be dredged each year by using those dredgers.