Investing more time in this thread is futile as Bangladeshis have started relying on their ultimate coping mechanism- denial. But I had promised to post excerpts of WB reports on Bangladesh's Logistics industry, and I deliver on my promises
So...
Number of truck is not a good indicator either. Main thing for economics is how much goods those trucks are carrying. A truck can remain mostly idle or can make multiple trip a day.
From the report named "Moving Forward : Connectivity and Logistics to Sustain Bangladesh’s Success", by the World Bank.
Bangladesh has a very low percentage of heavy trucks, among it's already tiny truck fleet. Most of the CVs are Medium CVs.
In fact, in India 80,000 tractor trailers alone were sold in the pre pandemic FY, that's 10X the total annual truck sales in BD. The number of 28-41 ton GVWR rigid multi axle trucks are even greater.
In fact the most common truck in Bangladesh is a 7 tonner (~15 ton GVWR).
Even the Dhaka Chittagong route is dominated by 7 tonners.
Much of Bangladesh lacks the facilities for stuffing & de-stuffing containers & many of the roadways cannot handle a tractor trailer rig with a 40" container, so the containers are stuffed/ de-stuffed at the Chittagong port or ICDs around Chittagong- Smaller trucks handle rest of the transportation.
The Intermodal container isn't so intermodal in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has lower truck utilization than it's peers, and the reasons for this include traffic congestion as well as inefficiencies in ports.
So you have a much much lower number of trucks compared to India, per capita and whatever you have is of smaller capacities and underutilized.
And yet your statistical office claims that the percentage share of value added by road transportation in your GDP is double that of India? How??
Another important thing is, a lot goods in Bangladesh are transported by waterways.
Sadly, BBS disagrees. According to BBS the value added by land transport is 6.5% (some $20 billion) in comparison with 0.5% added by water transportation.
Are you doubting BBS now?
Even funnier, divide that claimed BBS GVA of land transport by the total number of buses, trucks and even LCVs & autorickshaws in Bangladesh.
You'll get a ridiculous figure. Even scams do not claim to have this not this kind of RoI.
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