The bodies of at least two seafarers have been recovered from an oil tanker in Chittagong port after the fire that broke out today (30 September) in the morning.
The tanker Banglar Jyoti, owned by Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC), was moored at the oil jetty of Chittagong port where a blast occurred at 11 am (local time) and fire broke out.
https://container-news.com/two-bodies-recovered-from-the-fire-hit-oil-tanker-in-chittagong/
A software malfunction of Bangladesh’s customs authority has halved export-import activities in Chittagong Port during the last five days after the National Board of Revenue (NBR) updated its online system at the weekend.
Most of the customs officials, shipping agents, C&F agents, and people involved in the export-import trade have been failing to enter the online system, submit data, bill of lading, and export and import general manifesto.
These have severely disrupted export/import-related...
https://container-news.com/software-glitch-heavily-disrupts-chittagong-port-operations/
The shipment of containers had remained suspended through Chittagong port for five days from Friday to Tuesday, due to a countrywide internet connection cut, and enforcement of curfew to calm student protest seeking public sector job quota reform.
Some 200 people reportedly died across Bangladesh during the last week as they clashed with police to press home their demand. They burnt vehicles and blocked highways barring the movement of vehicles towards ports thus trucks could not reach to the...
https://container-news.com/container-movement-resumes-at-chittagong-port-after-five-days/
As students have enforced a countrywide blockade in Bangladesh demanding the removal of the quota system in the public sector jobs, the movement of cargo carrying trucks towards the Chittagong port and the container depots remained suspended since Wednesday (17 July) night.
Students have blocked the roads across the country thus no vehicles are plying on the highways disrupting the transportation of export and import cargoes.
The students protested the abolition of the quota system during the...
https://container-news.com/countrywide-blockade-suspends-cargo-movement-in-bangladesh/
Port of Chittagong attained a 5.36% growth in container handling and a 4.18% rise in cargo handling in the fiscal year 2023-24 which ended on 30 June.
Bangladesh’s prime seaport could attain the growth despite a 6.63% decline in ships incoming to the port in the year amid import restrictions due to a severe shortage of foreign currency reserve
Data shows that the port handled some 3.169 million TEU of containers and 123.2 million tonnes of cargo in the just concluded fiscal year, up from handling...
https://container-news.com/chittagong-port-sees-container-growth/
Singapore-based feeder vessel operator X-Press Feeders/Sea Consortium Pte Ltd has paid Tk 4.78 million (around US$41,000) as a fine for violating the Bangladesh Flag Vessels (Protection) Act 2019.
After the payment, the authorities released one of the operator’s container vessels, namely X-PRESS LHOTSE, which was detained for two days at the outer anchorage of Chittagong port with 1,600 TEU boxes onboard.
The operator paid the whole amount of the fine fearing that two other vessels, namely...
https://container-news.com/sea-consortium-fined-us40000-for-violating-bangladesh-flag-rules/
AD Ports Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Chittagong Port Authority to explore the future development and operation of the Multi-Purpose Port in Chittagong Port and other ancillary opportunities in Bangladesh.
The agreement was signed in the presence of Abdulla AlHmoudi, UAE Ambassador, Head of the UAE Mission to Bangladesh and Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, MP, Honourable Minister of State, Md. Mostafa Kamal, Senior Secretary, Ministry of Shipping – Government of the People’s...
https://container-news.com/ad-ports-signs-agreement-for-multi-purpose-port-in-chittagong/
AD Ports Group will invest around US$1 billion in the under-construction Bay Terminal in the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
A four-member team of the Dubai-based port group is scheduled to visit Bangladesh on 13 May to discuss the investment project with the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA). The two sides are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding on the investment plan on 16 May.
A total of four terminals will be built under the Bay Terminal project which will have a water draft of...
Mitsui E&S Japan has secured a job for the design, manufacture, supply and installation of container handling equipment, terminal operation system, and security system at Bangladesh’s maiden under-construction deep-sea port at Matarbari in Chittagong.
The country’s cabinet committee on government purchase at a meeting on 20 March, presided over by Finance Minister Abul Hasan Mahmood Ali, approved this regard for the work costing US$73 million, according to cabinet division secretary Mahmudul...
https://container-news.com/japans-mitsui-es-to-equip-bangladeshi-deep-sea-port/
Saudi Arabia’s port and terminal operator Red Sea Gateway Terminal International (RSGT) has secured a concession agreement for the Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) at the port of Chittagong in Bangladesh.
RSGT will operate the newly built box terminal on PPP (public-private partnership) – G2G (government to government) basis for the next 22 years after the agreement, which was signed by RSGT CEO Jeans O. Foley and Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) chairman Rear Admiral Mohammad Sohail today (6...
https://container-news.com/rsgt-to-operate-bangladeshs-newly-built-terminal-for-the-next-22-years/