In the 1990s, Shahed ran a local business in Chattogram with two trucks that he bought. In 2004, the Sylhet native, now 52, sold the trucks and bought four covered vans to transport readymade garment (RMG) products.
Readymade garment manufacturer A Plus Sweater Ltd had sent an RMG consignment to Chattogram Port from its Gazipur factory on eight covered vans on October 29 last year for shipment to Brazil. Sweaters packed into 898 cartons reached Chattogram the following day.