Bangladesh virtually separated from the rest of the world when it suspected that all advertising flights in late March faced the furious coronavirus, but some corporations were there to help the country import and complete major shipments for cross-border trade. and DHL Express Bangladesh is one of them.
The local subsidiary in Bonn, Germany, Deutsche Post DHL Group, the world’s leading logistics company, has not closed its doors for a day without getting married, its own company was badly affected at the start of the pandemic with the rest of the country.
“We think this is an emergency service, so we didn’t cancel our service for a day without being married during the pandemic,” said Miarul Haque, CEO of DHL Express Bangladesh.
The company to maintain operations, as it is a vital component of the chain of origin and connects the country with the rest of the world.
Long before Bangladesh’s lockout on 26 March, the company had raised awareness among painters of World Health Organization guidelines, mentally prepared them for the harsh war that followed, cleaned cleaning facilities, implemented hygiene practices and ready to paint from home.
That stopped him there.
In the last 4 decades of operation in Bangladesh, no DHL charter flight has arrived in Bangladesh, but due to the pandemic, one of the airline’s flights flew to serve customers.
“We’ve made a decision we’ll have for our customers, even if that means managing aviation’s capacity at higher costs,” Haque said.
“I say to my employees: they not only pick up or deliver a cargo; maybe they’re saving someone’s life or maybe they’re someone’s luck or they’re letting someone grow up,” he told the Daily. She stars in a recent virtual interview.
Emergency drugs and coronavirus-related parts used through law enforcement agencies pass through the company’s pandemic.
DHL Express has been in Bangladesh since 1979. Initially, it controlled agents’ operations before opening a wholly owned subsidiary in 2008, in popularity due to the country’s developing importance.
It handles about 70% of all incoming shipments, the largest foreign airline in the country. The rest is controlled through two other foreign corporations represented through local agents and about 30 to 40 local corporations.
Express airlines handle more than 3. 5 million shipments each year, 60% of which are to the country and 40% to the country, with major customers being clothing and leather manufacturers, ICT corporations and banks.
DHL Express Bangladesh delivers small, urgent and high-value packages and documents in a short time that have an effect on industry facilitation and manufacturing. Lately it employs more than 550 people.
Haque said the first quarter of 2020 for smart businesses and shipments began yielding in April and the following months, as a result, there was an 80 cent drop in business due to a massive decline in clothing exports.
“Smart news is the worst for society. Let’s get back to normal,” Haque said.
A business graduate of dhaka University’s Institute of Business Administration, Haque began his career at British American Tobacco Bangladesh.
In 2001, he joined the DHL Express Bangladesh sales team. He is an experienced business leader with nearly 25 years of experience in multinational companies.
He spoke of the fact that Vietnam has outperformed Bangladesh in world clothing exports and the main points underlying its delight in running in that country for a significant time.
In 2012, he moved to a network project at DHL Express Vietnam and worked as a sales manager for five and a half years.
For some time it had been debated that Vietnam was outpertching Bangladesh in clothing exports and this was achieved in the last fiscal year ending In June.
The pandemic has played a major role in preventing clothing in Bangladesh amid a sinking in global demand.
Vietnam has controlled the pandemic very well, setting an example globally despite sharing a border with China, where the virus originated.
Vietnam is strategically located, close to primary sites and end markets. It can stock up on China and Hong Kong the next day, which will happen in 90% of cases.
It can take a total week from door to door when you’re with Bangladesh, Haque said.
Bangladesh does not have a deep seaport, while Vietnam has several with more than 2,000 km of coastal belt, said Haque, who has been managing director of DHL Express Bangladesh since July 2017.
Bangladesh also faces obstacles in shipping products to buyers.
Bangladesh’s main clothing destination is Europe, which accounts for about 57 percent of the pieces of clothing shipped.
If Vietnam exports parts to Europe with explicit air service, buyers will get delivery in two days. From Bangladesh, a safe percentage of shipping can succeed on buyers within two days, but in many cases it would take more than two days.
“Bangladesh simply has to settle for reality, where things are uncontrollable like proximity,” Haque said.
“On the contrary, Bangladesh looks at the things it can control, in terms of regulatory policies and infrastructure. “
Haque talked about logistical challenges, explicit air transport.
As the goods are shipped and delivered, there’s a big difference, he said.
While in Vietnam, a DHL Express flight landed at Hochi Minh City Airport at 5:45 a. m.
Vietnam can pack boxes for 60 to 90 minutes consistently. After the boxes were removed from the air operations site at the airport, unzipped, scanned, cleared and taken to the service center for classification, all those activities ended at 8:00 a. m.
At 8 a. m. , local couriers set out to deliver it to the recipients.
“In Bangladesh, at the arrival of flights, the box recovery procedure is longer,” Haque said.
The pit recovery of the flight arriving in the afternoon would take place the next day. Recovery of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport until 16:00 hours.
“You miss a day in the case of many flights. “
DHL Express Bangladesh cannot bring your flight to the country as the airport does not offer air operations and volume may not be feasible at this time either. In Bangladesh, DHL Express is based on fully advertising airlines.
In Vietnam, it introduced the first flight around 2011 at Ho Chi Minh City International Airport and added a flight from Hanoi in 2014.
Like many other countries, Vietnam has allowed the major players in the explicit air sector to operate at the airport.
They will have all the appliances such as scanners and to carry out the airport processes in their amenities. Customs also operates on the conveniences of explicit air transport corporations. Air Express corporations have knowledge integration with the customs system.
A rapid customs clearance procedure is carried out in accordance with the World Customs Guidelines.
The company’s airport equipment categorizes all shipments with their own formulas before landing at the airport according to the category definition explained through local customs. No one would touch the goods that would pass through the green channel, because the data on them have already been transferred the customs formula with a very limited random exception.
Most explicit air shipments are usually low-value shipments.
Vietnam Airport has a consolidated legal clearance, which means, for example, that 1,000 shipments would be inserted into the customs formula under a bachelor’s entry letter, from the filing of 1,000 sets of documents for the 1,000 shipments.
“Save a lot of time, ” said Haque.
In Bangladesh, there is no knowledge integration.
Haque meets with senior executives from giant companies of origin.
He said Bangladesh had to import fabrics and accessories. As suppliers expand samples by bringing fabrics and accessories from outside the country, the tendering procedure ends.
As a result, Bangladesh is wasting $1 billion a year on opportunities for Vietnam and Cambodia, two major buyers said in Haque.
In Vietnam, 90% of explicit air shipments are dispatched without delay through green canals under a rule called de minimis clearance, known as rapid customs clearance. In Bangladesh, such provisions are legal in accordance with the country’s customs laws, an effective procedure that meets the needs of companies remains pending.
“It is wonderful that Bangladesh has carried out some revisions over the more than two years in the de minimis law, such as reviewing the price threshold from 1,000 Tk to 2,000 Tk and defining the price as intrinsic. “
In Bangladesh, it is estimated that around 80% of explicit air shipments have a turnover of less than 2,000 taka, or about $23.
The ideal practice would be this: if there are thousands of shipments with an invoice price of less than 2000 Tk, they would all be condensed into one single access invoice and offset by simplified information.
In September last year, the National Revenue Board issued a regulatory decree implementing the de minimis rule, but there has been a very limited authorization that is currently found due to the lack of an effective procedure on the ground, he said.
In Vietnam, all shipments with an invoiced price of less than $45 would be dispatched under de minimis clearance.
There are demanding situations in the departure of shipments.
One is that the European Union has placed Bangladesh on the list of countries with the highest threat in terms of operational burden to or in transit through EU countries since 2016, calling it a “red country” because its protection criteria do not meet those of the Vietnam economic bloc does not have that problem.
Labelling means that Bangladesh cannot send any shipment directly to the EU, but that companies will need to request new control of their goods at a third airport in a green country in the direction of an EU country.
As a result, it faces delays in terms of time and cost.
“Ultimately, buyers would pay attention to barriers while competitive before placing orders from Bangladeshi suppliers. “
An action plan with time limits will have to be ready to get out of the red tag, Haque said.
Bangladesh has established an automated explosives detection formula at Dhaka Airport. “Now we want the formula to work efficiently, with the required capacity, with well-trained resources and run smoothly. “
The DHL Express Bangladesh processing center has all security machines, the Automated Explosive Detection System (EDS) and maintains the required protection standards, so RA3 (third country regulatory officer) qualified through EU-appointed auditors.
However, despite qualified standards, DHL Express Bangladesh cannot transfer the benefits to the global business so as not to have the opportunity to operate the airport air site.
He said that due to the slowness of competitiveness, Bangladesh would lose its appeal.
“Buyers are exploring competitive and effective origins. Therefore, Bangladesh will remain very vulnerable. “
He said Bangladesh had brought approved economic operators (EES) for exports, now the country wants to explore how it can inspire and make this bigger for other operators by providing what was expected and especially for imports where the most demanding situations are located.
He said Bangladesh’s good luck would depend on how temporarily it could apply regulations and regulations in the maximum simplified way. Simplifying the process will also attract foreign direct investment.
“Implementation would be such that it meets the needs of corporations to facilitate the industry and competitiveness of the country. “
Bangladesh sees how it can release 90% of explicit air shipment from the airport within 3-4 hours of the arrival of a flight, he said.
Tariffs and taxes on explicit air shipments are likely to account for less than 1% of all profits generated at all ports, he said.
Bangladesh, for example, collects two hundred million Tk of revenue source from air shipments. If the country further complicates the processes, it may earn another Tk 2 crore, but while chasing the Tk 2 crore, the country may potentially lose orders valued at $ 5 billion, or Tk 45,000 crore.
The country can give up a hundred million rupees from Tk due to the simplification of regulations and procedures, but it would potentially generate $10 billion in orders, as the procedure is a gateway to generate around $40 billion in export orders at this time.
“That’s why it’s very, very important, that we look at the big picture. “
Under Haque’s leadership, DHL Express Bangladesh has been identified as the “Great Place to Work” for 3 consecutive years through the Great Place to Work Institute, a global authority on the creation, maintenance and popularity of high-reliability, high-performance paint cultures in the United States.
According to Haque, the company has learned several things from the pandemic.
The pandemic teaches a lesson that there is no other option for world trade, he said.
“The purpose of DHL is to “connect people, improve lives” and the scenario of a pandemic is the most productive time to live with the purposeArray”
“The third lesson is that if there is a well-thought-out plan and coordination at all levels, investment and business continuity can be maintained despite a difficult period. “
DHL continuously invests in Bangladesh because it believes in the country’s potential, Haque said. “We will continue to do so. “