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Barisal water transport network drying up [1]

Water transport owners in the Barisal region choose to either close or divert their business, as they are losing out to road transporters.

A falling number of passengers, decreasing river navigability and emerging shoals are setting back the river transport business.

Publication Date: 
14/04/2009
Daily Star (Bangladesh) [2]
Tags:
Surface Water [3], Transport [4], Road Transport [5], Bangladesh [6]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/daily-star-bangladesh
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/surface-water
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/transport
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/road-transport
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bangladesh