The strike is part of a nationwide protest called by the Bangladesh Launch Labour Association

Water transport workers have enforced an indefinite work abstention from midnight, halting cargo transport from Chattogram to different parts of the country.

The government has decided that movement of vehicles carrying goods will remain suspended for 10 days before and after Eid-ul-Fitr on Dhaka-Paturia and Dhaka-Archiah highways and Paturia-Daulatdia and Aricha-Kazirhat river routes.