Md Rezaul Karim, chairman of Shippers' Council of Bangladesh, has recently been appointed as the vice chairman of Asian Shippers' Alliance, the council said in a statement yesterday.
The appointment has been given at the three-day meeting of the alliance held at Jakarta in Indonesia on March 1, according to the statement.
Karim is the proprietor of SN Jute International and a member of the general body of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
He is also a former chairman of Bangladesh Jute Association, according to the statement.