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Karachi's port deal and the floods upstream
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Ports, rivers and warnings
From Karachi, a port operating deal that has been years in the making, and from the north, floods that crossed borders faster than the warnings did. Tanvir and his guest look at both calmly and in detail.
- What the Karachi port agreement changes for shippers and for the city
- Why flood data is shared slowly between neighbouring governments
- How farmers in two countries are coping with the same river
- A central bank decision in Colombo and its effect on remittances
- The six-months-from-now story: a digital ID rollout
Listener questions on remittance rules are answered in the final segment.
Transcript
Welcome back to Monsoon Dispatch. I am Tanvir Rahman Chowdhury, and this week my guest is calling from Karachi, where a port operating agreement that has been negotiated for years was finally signed on Tuesday. We will explain what it changes for anyone who ships goods through the city and what it means for the people who live beside the docks. Then we go upstream, where floods on shared rivers crossed borders in hours while the warnings took days, and we ask the uncomfortable question of why two governments that share a river cannot share a rain gauge. We also have a central bank decision from Colombo that affects anyone sending money home, and your questions on remittances. Thirty-five minutes, no shouting. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.
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