ဦးထွန်း On September 9, 2025, the military junta ordered highway terminals to not accept
the delivery of goods from Pathein to other regions, a gatekeeper at the Pathein highway station told BBM.
“If we can’t load the delivery of goods, it’s hard to sell. If we only sell fish paste, dried fish, and rice from our own area, if they think we need to support PDFs, then our people in Ayeyarwady Region will only starve even more,”
a shopkeeper in Pathein told BBM. In late August and early September, military gates were seen unloading, taking, and throwing away the delivery of goods from highway buses.
“If we can’t load the delivery of goods , it’s hard to sell them. Now that jobs are scarce, people are just selling and eating. Now that they’re doing this, it’s hard to sell and export,”
said a family-owned vendor at the Pathein strand market. As the situation has become such that only large traders can export goods from the Ayeyarwady Region, small and medium-sized traders are disappearing, a person who worked on village development projects during the previous NLD government said.
“The poverty index will fall if small and medium-sized enterprises develop. Now he (the military junta) is going in the direction of causing trouble for everyone,”
Ko Naing Kyaw Swar said. The highway terminals that mainly run the Ayeyarwady say that the current order is not only a problem for the transporters but also for the bus companies.
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