Dhaka, Sept. 21 -- Online marketplace for hiring trucks is becoming popular in Bangladesh, lowering trading costs and making business globally competitive as well, said industry insiders.

Many mobile app-based new-generation IT start-ups have grown in the past few years, although apparently not reaching profitability in some cases.

Yet the trade grew amid sluggish economic activity, changing the country's transportation and logistics dras

A Dhaka-based logistics app GIM (Goods in Motion) has already created quite a stir in the goods transportation market of Bangladesh.

Since the floatation of an idea in early 2018 and its eventual launch in mid-2019, GIM has been changing the tradition of the market.

"Our goal has been to increase us...