CCCI president urges ministers to meet transport workers' demands

The newly elected president of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry yesterday urged the government to accept the rational demands of the goods carrying transport owners and workers of Chittagong.
Mahbubul Alam made the request in separate letters to Communications Minister Obaidul Quader and Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan.
On Wednesday, the goods-carrying transport owners and workers said they would go on a 72-hour strike from April 9 in the Chittagong division to obtain their 13-point demand.
In the letters to the ministers, the CCCI president said the strike would hinder transportation of goods and export-import procedures, and prices of commodities would go up as a result.
He suggested holding discussions with the transport owners and workers to reach a solution and save the national economy from loss.