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Japanese firms mull ‘shifting’ production from China to Bangladesh
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Published: 22:01, Mar 07,2020
https://www.newagebd.net/article/10...-shifting-production-from-china-to-bangladesh
The Japan Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Saturday observed that some Japanese companies were considering shifting of production from China to other countries, including Bangladesh.
The joint-chamber made the observation at the 10th Networking Gathering of JBCCI, hosted by Conveyor Logistics Limited, at Lakeshore Hotel in the capital, said a press release.
Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh Naoki Ito attended the programme as the chief guest while JBCCI president Yuji Ando spoke on the occasion. Ito said that Japanese companies were showing interest in investing in Bangladesh to expand their businesses.
‘Currently, 310 Japanese companies are operating in Bangladesh. The number will increase if the issues with bureaucracy and taxation policies become smoother and government officials become more cooperative towards foreign investors,’ he added.
He believed that the years 2020-2024 were very important for Bangladesh as mega projects, like Metro Rail, Padma Bridge and Matarbari deep-sea port, will be completed during the time.
Ando said that some Japanese companies were considering shifting of production from China to other countries, including Bangladesh.
‘Logistics is one of the most important issues. That’s because the supply chain is based on good logistic networks. Coronavirus is the biggest concern in the world now and it is having huge impact on the global supply chain. We can understand that transportation and logistics are the key factors for realising international businesses,’ he said.
He said that Bangladesh had to prepare for improving the logistic environment, rules and regulations for the next five years.
‘In this regard, we need the support from all members to urge the government to remove the bottlenecks in the logistic sector,’ he added.
JBCCI treasurer Hideaki and secretary general Tareq Rafi Bhuiyan were present, among others, on the occasion.1 -
Bangladesh mustn’t be dependent on India’s defence hardware
INDIA’S plan for the installation of meshed steel fences in at least 58 more places within 150 yards of the zero line along the border with Bangladesh, as India took up the issue at a meeting between India and Bangladesh’s foreign secretaries in Dhaka on Monday, is ominous. India has harped about the issue several times, with the foreign secretary having talked about the issue of fencing along a 165-kilometre stretch at a seminar on the same day. India earlier took up the issue at a meeting of the home ministers in August 2019 and at another meeting of the border guard chiefs in December that year. What ‘friendly’ India, which has since April 2017 claimed its bilateral relations with Bangladesh ‘far beyond a strategic partnership’, plans with the erection of meshed steel fencing is unfriendly as it so does in its western frontiers with Pakistan, which India thinks is a hostile country. While this would constitute India’s violation of the international law that allows no structure at a minimum of 150 metres from the actual border, it would also dishonour the agreement that Bangladesh made in December 2009 to allow fencing within 150 yards from the zero line in certain patches where population extends right up to the zero line provided it is necessitated by ‘humanitarian concerns and geographical realities.’
While India appears to force a wholesale use of Bangladesh’s 2009 ‘consent’, India plans to replace, as the Indian media have reported, barbed-wire fences already erected along the border with meshed steel fences. With such an unfriendly attitude towards Bangladesh being typical of India, especially issues of Teesta water sharing and the killing of unarmed Bangladeshis by India’s border guards having not been attended to, it should come with reasons for worry when India is reported to build ‘a robust military-to-military engagement’ with Bangladesh, which would include the sales of defence hardware manufactured in India. India’s foreign secretary seeks to say that the ‘ongoing efforts’ to develop a partnership between the military of the two countries emphasise ‘the trust of the highest order’, which India’s other actions regarding unresolved prickly issues and the move for the erection of meshed steel fences belie. All this means that India wants Bangladesh to be a user of Indian military hardware by way of purchase. But a hostile India, with which Bangladesh has borders stretching 4,156 kilometres, with the rest stretching 271 kilometres with Myanmar, remains the principal ‘threat perception’ for Bangladesh. In such a state of threat perception, it would be dangerous and unwise to enter into any defence agreement by way of which Bangladesh should use and get used to the defence hardware of India, which would eventually make Bangladesh dependent on India’s military in cases of any perceived conflicts with India.
It is, therefore, imperative for Bangladesh, first, not to agree to India’s plan for the installation of meshed steel fences along the border, which would also be in deviation from the Indo-Bangladesh Boundary Agreement 1974 which restricted any construction within 150 yards of the zero line. Bangladesh must in no way, then, agree to any agreement with India regarding the use of Indian military hardware. Any such move now could prove doubly jeopardising for Bangladesh in future.
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Ready To Share Military Hardware With Bangladesh: Indian Diplomat
Harsh Vardhan Shringla said Bangladesh has become India's largest development partner in the world and India's largest trade partner in the region.
Dhaka:
India is ready to share with Bangladesh any military hardware being manufactured in the country for India's defence forces, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Monday as he underlined the potential for robust defence cooperation between the two neighbours.
Addressing a seminar at the Bangladesh Institute for International Studies (BIISS), Mr Shringla said Bangladesh has become India's largest development partner in the world and India's largest trade partner in the region.
Over 75 separate dialogue mechanisms connect our Governments and people in an effort to build the strongest possible framework for a permanent partnership.
Mr Shringla, a former Indian High Commissioner to Dhaka, is in Bangladesh on his first visit to the country.
He said Indo-Bangladesh partnership will reach its true potential when the two sides equally recognise that their interests converge and there is a mutuality of benefit.
"This is why we believe that our ongoing efforts to develop a robust partnership between our militaries emphasises trust of a high order. Especially since we are willing to share with you any and all military hardware being manufactured in India for use by our military", the top Indian diplomat said amidst China making efforts to sell weapons, including submarines, to Bangladesh.
Mr Shringla said India also welcomes the opportunity for Indian officers to train at premier military institutions of Bangladesh, just as the Indian side is ready to open military training institutes at all levels – from officer cadet training to specialised higher command training – to Bangladesh.
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As Indian media reported citing sources from the government of India, Armenia has signed a contract worth about $40 million to purchase four Indian ground-based mobile Swathi Weapon Locating Radar (WLR) stations for its artillery. India's Swathi Weapon Locating Radar (WLR) was selected by Armenia as a result of a tender, which involved similar radars of Russian and Polish manufacture. Their shipment is being carried on.
The Swathi Weapon Locating Radar (WLR) is a mobile artillery-locating phased array radar developed by India. This counter-battery radar is designed to detect and track incoming artillery and rocket fire to determine the point of origin for counter-battery fire. The WLR has been jointly developed by Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), a lab of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL). The sub-systems have been fabricated by BEL based on the DRDO designs and delivered to LRDE for integration.
The detection range for large-caliber artillery rounds is up to 30 km, and increases to 40 km for unguided rockets. The robust design of the radar array and algorithms allows the WLR to effectively operate even in a high-density fire environment, in severe clutter and interference (jamming) conditions. Up to 7 targets can be tracked simultaneously. The radar can track rounds fired at both low and high angles, and at all aspect angles - from behind or towards the radar, or at an oblique angle to the array. The WLR features adaptive radar resource scheduling to increase efficiency and reliability.
At a given position, the radar can scan for targets in one quadrant, encompassing a 90° sector. The array can electronically scan up to +/-45° from its mean bearing. Additionally, for 360° coverage from a given position, the whole array can be rotated by 135° on either side within 30 seconds to quickly change the scanning sector in response to threats.
Upon detecting an incoming round, the automatically acquires and classifies the threat and initiates a track sequence, while continuing to search for new targets. The incoming round's trajectory is tracked, and a computer program analyses the track data and then extrapolates the round's point of origin. This calculated point of origin is then reported to the radar operator, thus allowing friendly artillery to direct counter-battery fire towards the enemy artillery.
The WLR also allows for remote operation and data-linking for better situational awareness at higher echelons of the command hierarchy. The data can be automatically transmitted to a command center and can communicate with higher echelons. The radar data can also be displayed on a remote screen to protect operators from any targeted attacks on the radar. The operators can also remotely change the scanning sector. Many radars can be networked together to work in tandem and increase accuracy and provide more information.
The WLR is configured on an 8x8 Tatra truck platform. The trucks are manufactured by BEML in India under license. The WLR is designed to operate in a high-density fire environment and has all-weather capability, high mobility and quick reaction time. The system is a two-vehicle configuration, with the primary sensor, processors, displays and control unit on a single vehicle, and a separate power vehicle to power the radar. The radar data can also be displayed remotely.
The Radar is designed to operate in harsh environments ranging from -20 to +55°C, in hot and humid conditions, and can be safely stored from -40 to +70°C. It can operate at high altitudes up to 16,000 feet (4,900 m).[1][2] Shock & vibration performance and resistance to EMI/EMC are according to international military standards. The WLR is designed for quick deployment and decamp, and can be ready for action within 30 minutes. In case of any incoming threats, the radar can be quickly moved out of the threat area.
Swathi WLR has been tested and proven by DRDO since 2003, but it was not until March 2017 that the first of 28 ordered series systems were handed over to the Indian Army. Armenia becomes the first known foreign customer for Swathi radars.
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Refitted ahead of schedule by India’s state-owned Hindustan Shipyard Ltd (HSL), the Indian Navy will soon transfer Kilo-class submarine INS Sindhuvir to Myanmar. The Russian-built attack submarine will be the Myanmar Navy’s first amidst long running plans by the force to develop an underwater arm.
HSL, which received the submarine for the refit in 2017, delivered the submarine back to the Indian Navy two days ago — ahead of time, says the shipyard. The overhauled submarine was undocked last July, shortly after India had cleared diplomatic paperwork for the transfer, which takes place under the line of credit that India has extended to Myanmar for areas of military modernisation.
The transfer of the Sindhuvir to Myanmar, expected to take place quietly in by the end of March, couldn’t have come easy. The Indian Navy is already having to make do with a wafer thin submarine force for the kinds of responsibilities imposed on the underwater arm. It is clear that preempting a Chinese submarine foothold in Myanmar was deemed more important than holding onto an old submarine in force levels indubitably stretched very thin. There could be some good medium-term news for the submarine arm though, as Livefist recently reported.
INS Sindhuvir is one of ten Kilo-class boats the Indian Navy commissioned between 1986 and 2000. With the loss of INS Sindhurakshak in a dockyard explosion of ordnance in 2013, the navy will be left with eight after Sindhuvir sails off to Myanmar. INS Sindhukesari returned to India last year after a 27-month refit at Russia’s Zvezdochka shipyard. INS Sindhuraj also completed a refit at Russia’s Sevmash shipyard last year and is back in service. Two more boats of the class are part of the refit program. The Indian Navy also operates four Type 209 submarines and the first two of six Kalvari-class (Scorpene) boats.
The Sindhuvir transfer, to be sure, is not the first transfer that will be watched closely in the region. In 2006-07, the Indian Navy supplied a pair of BN-2 Islander tactical maritime surveillance aircraft to Myanmar’s then Than Shwe dispensation to the consternation of the U.K. The submarine transfer is a far more significant act, though, and comes amidst China’s ongoing efforts to push some of its older submarines into the services of countries like Myanmar and Bangladesh. The latter has already commissioned two old Ming-class submarines and is receiving help from China to build a submarine base. The supply of Sindhuvir to Myanmar seeks to build on an ongoing military support effort and to also preclude China from getting a foothold in an area — submarine access in the Indian Ocean — where there has already been concern.
The refitted Sindhuvir has also been fitted with certain Indian systems — activity cleared by Russia before paperwork was completed last year.
The India-Myanmar military support partnership has deepened in the last 15 years. In 2006, Myanmar sent its corvette Anawrahta to the Milan 2006 naval multilateral exercise at Port Blair in India’s Andaman & Nicobar islands. The act was seen as Myanmar finally opening up to the region after years in political isolation. The country has since had ship designers trained in India following requests for help in raising a shipbuilding force. Earlier this month, Indian Navy chief Admiral Karambir Singh visited Myanmar where he visited Yangon’s 1st fleet and met with crews of Myanmar’s indigenously designed Kyan Sittha-class frigate UMS Sin Phyushin (which has an Indian-made BEL sonar) and the country’s new South Korean Makassar-class landing platform dock UMS Moattama. He also visited Myanmar’s shipbuilding facilities in Thilawa, a site that has a significant infusion of Indian knowhow.
Russia has mounted an aggressive campaign for the Indian Navy’s P75I submarine build program, pitching its Amur 1650 as a logical next step from the very well-regarded Kilos. Livefist visited the Admiralty Shipyard last year for this detailed report on Moscow’s pitch.
For HSL, the earlier delivery of the refitted Sindhuvir is a confidence boost, both for itself as well as the Indian Navy. The shipyard has struggled to return to relevance, and isn’t yet regarded on par with other MoD-controlled shipyards, including Mazagon Docks Ltd and Goa Shipyard Ltd. With the prospect of having to sit out the P75I submarine build program, the shipyard will be looking to acquire as much refit and overhaul work as possible from the Indian Navy.
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No it's not, this is from UAE.
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