A breakthrough finally came about yesterday over a stalemate centring issuance of waiver certificates which allow foreign flagged container vessels to carry cargo to and from the country’s seaports.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent SM Nazmul Huq, the former chief engineer and surveyor of the Department of Shipping, to jail after he surrendered before it in a bribery case.

An engineer of the Department of Shipping is caught red-handed by the Anti-Corruption Commission while taking a bribe of Tk 5 lakh from a contractor.