A elevated quantity of containers and cargoes used to be handled at the Chattogram port in the closing three months from August to October.
Container handling at Chittagong port had elevated by 9% in the closing three months when a total of 8,30,582 containers had been handled in the port, Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) Chairman Rear Admiral SM Moniruzzaman said this day (19 November).
Speaking at a media briefing, he expressed the hope that container handling would adversarial 3.2 million TEUs at the pause of the present fiscal year if the present kind of container handling continues.
Giving a salient feature of container handling at the port, he said the port skilled a boost of over 9.22% in container handling when compared with the previous year.
Relating to common ready time of ships, Moniruzzaman said that there hold been forty five.5 thousand containers at Chattogram Port’ on 16 July. That is, about 85% of the total capability of the Chittagong Port Authority used to be occupied, he added.
“It has been diminished to 34 thousand through systematic innovation in the closing three months. Currently, the common ready time of ships has advance down in some unspecified time in the future from 6 to eight days. Ships are getting on-arrival berthing after arriving at Chattogram port.” he added.
The CPA chairman said the worldwide economic instability and excessive inflation precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine battle and the next Heart East disaster are moreover being mirrored in the Bangladesh’s financial system.
Despite this adversarial peril, the CPA has maintained the continuity of cargo and container handling through its expertise and expertise, he added.
He said the CPA has earned a total of Tk1,643.85 crore in the closing 4 months of the 2024-25 monetary years, which is 21.85% elevated than the revenue earned in the corresponding length of the closing monetary year and at the identical time 28.01% bigger than the closing revenue quarter.
