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Garment and all factories remained closed Monday as the Bangladesh government reinforced curfew to calm down agitating students, as they had been heading towards Dhaka to oust the government.

The factories will remain closed until further orders are issued. From depots in Chittagong, only a few hundred boxes could go to the port for shipment. As the internet connection was cut for some hours on Monday morning, the shipment processes saw disruption.

On Sunday, clash between students, common people, police and ruling party people some 98 people dead while three more died on Monday.

Thousand of people took to the street demanding resignation of the government.

All private and public offices, shops, and commercial operations ordered three days closure.

Army has been patrolling in the street, while Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India on Monday afternoon in the face of severe protests.

SF Airlines has launched an international cargo air route connecting the southern Chinese cities of Shenzhen and Sanya with Singapore, the airline announced Monday.

The B767-300 cargo plane took off from Shenzhen's Bao'an International Airport at 10:01 p.m. Sunday, traveling on the Shenzhen-Singapore-Sanya-Shenzhen route, said SF Airlines, China's largest cargo airline by size.

The flight on this route is scheduled to operate once a week, with a cargo volume of about 100 tons.

This air cargo route connects China's “Greater Bay Area” region of Guangdong-Xiangyang-Aomen and the Hainan Free Trade Port with Singapore.

Export goods collected across China will be shipped to Singapore via this route. The imported goods will then be delivered to Sanya, a popular coastal tourist destination in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan, the airline said.

A seafarer has lost his life in the inferno of the newly built container ship Maersk Frankfurt, as firefighters continue to battle the flames three days after the fire broke out on 19 July.

The Panama-flagged 5,920 TEU Maersk Frankfurt, delivered to Japanese tonnage provider Tokei Kaiun from Imabari Shipbuilding in June, is on a three-year time charter to Maersk Line. Bernhard Schulte provides technical management to the ship.

Manned by 21 seafarers, Maersk Frankfurt sent a distress call while it was in the Arabian Sea, 50 nautical miles off Karwar, India, while sailing from Mundra to Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Panama Maritime Authority said in a statement, “The ship's operator reports a body in the lashing bridge, but it is impossible to reach it because of the flames. The Indian authorities are focusing their efforts to fight the fire and guarantee the safety of the ship and the crew.”

Indian officials said they suspect a short circuit could have caused the fire, although other media reports speculated that dangerous goods could have been the reason.

Maersk Frankfurt is assigned to the Danish carrier’s Far East Asia-Indian Subcontinent service, on which Ocean Network Express (ONE) is a co-loader. EconDB shows that just two days before the fire, Maersk Frankfurt departed India's Mundra port for Colombo, expecting to arrive 21 July.

A spokesperson for Maersk told Container News: “It is with deep regret that the ship managers have confirmed the passing of one of the crew members following the fire incident. The rest of the crew members are safe and accounted for. The vessel owner and ship managers are in touch with the crew and are ensuring all possible support is extended to them.”

She stressed that the cause of the fire is not known yet, adding that putting out the blaze is the current priority.

In June, the volume and turnover of rail freight transportation in China reached historic highs, maintaining the top position in the world. This is evidenced by data released on Sunday.

According to the China State Railway Corporation, which is the operator of passenger and freight rail transport in the country, China's railroads carried 332 million tons of freight in June, and freight turnover totaled 266.5 billion ton-km, up 6.1 percent and 5.3 percent year-on-year respectively.

Last month, rail transportation of containers, automobiles and cold chain cargoes rose 18 percent, 12.1 percent and 21.2 percent respectively, reaching record highs.

Previously released data showed that the number of passenger trips on China's railroads also reached a record high in the first half of 2024, totaling about 2.1 billion and up 18.4 percent year-on-year.

China State Railway Corporation said the cross-border freight transportation sector has also seen rapid growth, which ensures the stability of international supply chains and gives new impetus to the development of China's foreign trade and high-level opening up.

China-Nepal customs cooperation is expected to deepen further after the conclusion of a week-long meeting of customs officials from the two countries, which ended Monday in Lhasa, the administrative center of Xizang Autonomous Region in southwest China.

A delegation of seven Nepalese customs officials, deputy head of the customs department of Nepal's Ministry of Finance, began their visit to the PRC on July 2. The event was the 33rd such reciprocal visit.

Under the Belt and Road Initiative and a joint statement issued by the two countries, the two sides will promote cooperation in optimizing the business climate at the checkpoints and strengthening food import and export safety supervision, among other areas.

China is an important trading partner of Nepal, noting that it accounts for 17 percent of the country's total foreign trade.

As of 2023, China's foreign trade with Nepal reached 12.69 billion yuan /about $1.78 billion/, up 15.6 percent. It increased by 15.6 percent year-on-year. By breakdown, the trade volume between Xizang and Nepal amounted to 2.77 billion yuan, exceeding one-fifth of the total trade volume between the two nations.