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.
Bonn’s local subsidiary, Germany, Deutsche Post DHL Group, the world’s leading logistics company, has not closed its doors in a day without getting married, its own business was greatly affected at the beginning of the pandemic along with the rest. 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 the Bangladesh lockout on March 26, the company had made painters aware of World Health Organization guidelines, mentally prepared them for the harsh war that followed, cleaned up cleaning facilities, implemented cleaning practices. hygiene and ready to paint from home.
He didn’t stop it 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 lucky for someone 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 but impactful packages and documents in no time, making industry and manufacturing easier. 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 bangladesh during 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.
There had been discussion for some time that Vietnam was outpertching Bangladesh in clothing exports and this was achieved in the last fiscal year that ended 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 via explicit air service, buyers will get delivery within 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 steadily. After the boxes were removed from the air operations site at the airport, unzipped, scanned, cleared and taken to the service center for sorting, 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 is unable to bring your flight into the country as the airport does not offer air operations and the volume may not be feasible at this time either. In Bangladesh, DHL Express relies on all-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 major players in the explicit air sector to operate at the airport. AirAir operations offer 24-hour operations in the air.
They will have all the appliances such as scanners and to carry out the airport processes on their premises. Customs also operates on the premises 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 a billion dollars a year on opportunities for Vietnam and Cambodia, said two main buyers at Haque.
In Vietnam, 90% of explicit air shipments are dispatched without delay through green channels under a rule called de minimis clearance, known as fast 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 made some revisions during the more than two years on the de minimis law, such as revising the price threshold from Tk 1,000 to Tk 2,000 and defining the price as intrinsic. “
In Bangladesh, an estimated 80% of explicit air shipments are billed less than 2000 taka, or about $23.
The ideal practice is this: if there are thousands of shipments with an invoice price of less than 2000 Tk, they would all be condensed into a singles access bill and compensated with a simplified form as a manifest.
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 which is for the time being 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 most threatened in terms of operational burden towards or in transit in 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 need to be ready to exit the red label, 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 profits to the global business because it does not 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 fortune 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 to four 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, receives 200 million Tk from the revenue source of air shipments. If the country further complicates the processes, it can win other Tk 2 crore, but while chasing the Tk 2 crore, the country can potentially lose orders worth $5 billion, or 45,000 crore Tk.
The country may waive 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 learned several things from the pandemic.
The pandemic teaches a lesson that there is no other option for world trade, he said.
“DHL’s purpose is to ‘Connect People, Improve Lives’ and the scene of a pandemic is the most productive time to live with Purpose Array”
“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. “