The Indian high commissioner, Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, met the shipping minister, Shahjahan Khan, and discussed use of Ashuganj port and development of Chittagong and Mongla ports. During a meeting at the shipping ministry Thursday, they also discussed matters of mutual interests.

Pinak stressed the need for expansion of new routes especially river route for increasing trade and commerce between Bangladesh and India and river dredging for maintaining navigability of the routes. The minister assured the envoy of extending cooperation in dealing with the subjects. Shahjahan said scope of cooperation between two countries would further be increased in the future.

-New Age