Bangladesh Update nr. 1, 22
News
- Green garment factories in bangladesh call for new measures to ensure fair prices
- BGMEA launches initiative to certify garment factories with RSC
- Worker shortage a new challenge for RMG
- BGMEA’s ILO Worker Safety Agreement Covers 75 Factories
- This year’s cotton import to cross 9m bales, a record: BTMA president
- Some RMG suppliers struggling for export payments
- Boiler Accident Injures 7 in Bangladesh as Labor Unrest Rises
- Import EU (27) from Bangladesh in €
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Green garment factories in bangladesh call for new measures to ensure fair prices
The ‘green dream’ of Bangladesh garment entrepreneurs seems to be going down the drain as they are not getting the expected benefits from retailers and brands. As per a Daily Star report, garment entrepreneurs in Bangladesh have invested hundreds of crores of taka to set up green factories across the country, writes The Daily Star. Read more>>
BGMEA launches initiative to certify garment factories with RSC
Bangladesh’s apex garment makers’ association, BGMEA has launched an initiative to help member factories, interested in working with European buyers, to get their factories inspected by the Readymade Garment Sustainability Council or RSC, reports FashionatingWorld. Read more>>
Worker shortage a new challenge for RMG
Fakir Apparels Ltd (FAL) appointed 400 new workers last month after training them for three months at its training centre as the Narayanganj-based garment factory has received 25 per cent more work orders this season compared to the last season, writes Bangladesh newspaper The Daily Star. Read more>>
BGMEA’s ILO Worker Safety Agreement Covers 75 Factories
Bangladesh’s leading trade group for garment manufacturers inked an agreement with the International Labour Organization (ILO) Sunday to improve occupational safety and health at dozens of the South Asian nation’s factories.The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) will train 700 safety-committee representatives from 75 factories to identify, assess and manage potential fire, infrastructure and Covid-19 hazards, continuing the “momentum of workplace safety” that emerged in the wake of the 2013 multi-factory Rana Plaza collapse, which killed 1,134 workers and injured thousands more just outside the capital of Dhaka.“Safety committees bring together management and workers to help create and maintain [a] safe and healthy working environment,” George Faller, chief technical advisor of the ILO’s Improving Working Conditions in the RMG Sector Programme, said in a statement, writes Sourcing Journal. Read more (you may need a login to read the complete article).
This year’s cotton import to cross 9m bales, a record: BTMA president
An employee works at a cotton processing unit in Kadi town, in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Bangladesh will for the first time import 9 million bales of cotton this year thanks to the sudden rise in demand for yarn and fabrics, said Mohammad Ali Khokon, president of Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA), reports Bangladesh daily newspaper The Daily Star. Read more>>
Some RMG suppliers struggling for export payments
The local garment sector started performing strongly again with the recovery of the global economy. In the July-December period of the current fiscal year, garment shipments rose 28.02 per cent to $19.9 billion. Some local garment suppliers are struggling to avail payments from troubled Western clothing retailers and brands even nearly two years past making shipments while Covid-19 was initially running riot.Between April and August of 2020, international retailers and brands suspended, cancelled or demanded unusual payment deferrals worth $3.18 billion, according to data from the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA).For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel, writes Bangladesh daily newspaper The Daily Star. Read more>>
Boiler Accident Injures 7 in Bangladesh as Labor Unrest Rises
Seven workers were injured after a boiler exploded in a garment factory in Bangladesh on Saturday, igniting a fire that was quickly contained before emergency services could respond, local media reported.The accident occurred at Ambia Fashion in Agrabad, a downtown commercial district in the city of Chittagong, the South Asian country’s second-largest. Three fire units rushed to the scene but the blaze was already doused by the time they arrived. Two workers received burns from the blast, according to the Business Standard, while five others were hurt after they rushed out of the factory after the explosionsourcing Journal Read more (you may need a login to read the complete article).
Import EU (27) from Bangladesh in €
