{"id":10230,"date":"2016-10-06T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/10\/06\/bangladesh-looks-to-improve-relations\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T07:59:00","slug":"bangladesh-looks-to-improve-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/asia\/bangladesh-looks-to-improve-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh looks to improve relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>India wants to use Bangladesh\u2019s seaports to carry goods to its seven north eastern and landlocked states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal and Bhutan are also interested in using the ports for external trade, an official told <em>Port Strategy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh already offers India the use of Chittagong, Mongla and Ashuganj ports. India is also helping develop Ashuganj port.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are going to help Bangladesh build the ports infrastructure,\u201d Md. Shafiqul Islam, principal officer, Mercantile Marine Department, Chittagong told <em>PS<\/em>. This will be done with a $2m loan, Mr Islam said, referring to a line of credit given by India to Bangladesh to help develop infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a far reaching move, Bangladesh has allowed India, Nepal and Bhutan to use its southwestern Mongla port as part of a stepping up of maritime relations between the nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10230"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}