Belt and road initiative’s influence on Bangladesh’s textile sector : dynamics of international trade and apparel merchandising

Rahaman, Tareque (author), Pranta, Arnob Dhar (author)

China’s ambitious strategy of global trade and investment presents opportunities for several South Asian countries. It can benefit the Bangladesh Readymade Garments sector by enhancing global market access, and improving logistics and Foreign Direct Investment. In the context of a growing logistics infrastructure as part of the One Belt One Road (OBOR), this research paper analyses how improved logistics facilities due to the OBOR initiative may enhance productivity and ensure better international market access. It also raises such critical issues as the need for further progress on the infrastructure, technological enhancement and the addressing of potential trade imbalances. It considers social and environmental dimensions in the context of promising growth in the sector. This research offers strategic guidelines for the efficient use of energy sources while avoiding associated risks through the analysis of the opportunities and challenges related to the OBOR. For the most part, the latter is analytically identified as beneficial for the expansion of the Bangladeshi textile sector and for overall infrastructural development, especially in the area of exports. The findings may serve as a guide for stakeholders to actively engage in the industry, thus encouraging the highest potential growth, while maintaining their competitive advantage in the global apparel industry.

• Language: English
• Keywords: supply chain management, export trade, garment manufacturing, logistics facilities, trade policy, RMG, readymade garments, Belt and Road Initiative, BRI
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: NTF - Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: Str..33-43
• Numbering: Vol. 69, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-181431
• UDC: 677
• ISSN on article: 0351-3386
• DOI: 10.14502/tekstilec.69.2025091
• COBISS.SI-ID: 274368515
• Publication date in RUL: 07.04.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Tekstilec : glasilo slovenskih tekstilcev
• Shortened title: Tekstilec
• Publisher: Zveza inženirjev in tehnikov tekstilcev, Splošno združenje tekstilne industrije, Zveza inženirjev in tehnikov tekstilcev, Splošno združenje tekstilne industrije, Društvo inženirjev in tehnikov tekstilcev, Univerza v Ljubljani, Naravoslovnotehniška fakulteta, Oddelek za tekstilstvo, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0351-3386
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763396

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Vpliv pobude En pas, ena cesta na bangladeški tekstilni sektor : dinamika mednarodne trgovine in trgovanja z oblačili

Abstract

Kitajska ambiciozna strategija globalne trgovine in naložb ponuja priložnosti za več držav v Južni Aziji. Bangladeškemu sektorju omogoča boljši dostop do svetovnih trgov, razvitejšo logistiko in več neposrednih tujih naložb. V okviru rastoče logistične infrastrukture, ki je del pobude En pas, ena cesta (EPEC), je bila v tem raziskovalnem članku izvedena analiza možnosti izboljšanja logističnih zmogljivosti, povečanja produktivnosti in zagotavljanja boljšega dostopa do mednarodnih trgov. Raziskava odpira pomembna vprašanja o potrebi po nadaljnjem razvoju infrastrukture, tehnoloških izboljšavah in obravnavi morebitnih trgovinskih neravnovesij. Upošteva socialne in okoljske vplive na obetavno rast tega sektorja. Predstavljene so strateške smernice za učinkovito rabo energetskih virov ob izogibanju z njimi povezanih tveganj in pri tem podaja analizo priložnosti in izzivov EPEC. Pobuda je analitično prepoznana kot zelo koristna za širitev bangladeškega tekstilnega sektorja in splošni razvoj infrastrukture, zlasti na področju izvoza. Ugotovitve raziskave so lahko koristno vodilo deležnikom za aktivno vključevanje v industrijo ter spodbujanje največje možne rasti ob ohranjanju konkurenčne prednosti v svetovni industriji oblačil.

• Keywords: upravljanje dobavne verige, izvozna trgovina, proizvodnja oblačil, logistične zmogljivosti, trgovinska politika, RMG, konfekcionirana oblačila, pobuda Pas in cesta, BRI