Dhaka, Feb. 5 -- As Bangladesh pushes to strengthen its trade and supply chains, long-standing weaknesses in how goods move across the country are coming under sharper scrutiny.

From crowded ports to fragmented decision-making, logistics is increasingly seen as a quiet constraint on economic growth - just as the country prepares for tougher global competition and LDC graduation.

At a discussion in Dhaka on Tuesday, business leaders and policy experts warned that government monopolies in rail and air cargo, weak coordination among ministries and the absence of a central logistics authority are slowing the implementation of the National Logistics Policy.

They stressed that structural bottlenecks, combined with heavy dependence on the Dha...