After 13 years of the import of petroleum products through government-to-government (G2G) negotiations, Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) recently cancelled the G2G provision and reopened the tender process. A total of 16 international organisations have purchased the tender schedule to import petroleum products for the state-owned corporation, and they will submit the tender schedules on February 22, sources in the BPC said. BPC on February 11, 2016 floated an international tender to import petroleum products. The last date for purchasing the tender schedule was February 18. Talking to The Independent, Mosleh Uddin, Director of Operation and Planning of BPC informed that BPC wished to procure 9.875 million barrels (13,20,000 tonnes) of…

Despite the government’s resolve to have Bangla declared one of the official languages of the…