Bangladesh Shipping Corporation

Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) Bangladesh is both a riverine and a maritine country. In view of the importance of inland water and overseas communication, the Bangladesh Shipping Corporation was established in February 1972. Its headquarters is in Chittagong. But it also has offices in Khulna and Dhaka. All its offices deal in marketing and chartering ships. The marketing department looks after maintaining the corporation's ships and the chartering department deals in chartering ships, maintaining public relations and appointing officers and staff. It has offices in Singapore and London. The minister for shipping is the ex-officio chairman of the corporation. He is supported by the managing director, directors, a secretary, a general manager, an assistant general manager and office staff. At the beginning, the corporation had no ship of its own and started working merely as agents for others.

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