130th founding anniv of Ctg Port: 2-day long Port Expo -17 begins from April 27

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Chittagong Bureau :
Chittagong Port is going to observe the 130th founding anniversary on April 25 next with colourful celebrations. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the anniversary function in a video conference, port sources said. In observance of the founding anniversary , a two day long Port Expo-17 will be inaugurated at the n newly inaugurated Car Shed areas on 27th and 28th instant . Stakeholders from home and abroad are expected to be participated in this Expo to exhibition their equipment and port activities.
About 100 stalls will be setup to explore the port activities to the port users and beneficiaries. This was disclosed by Zafar Alam ,Member (Admin) Chitagong Port at the press conference held at its conference hall yesterday afternoon.
 It may be mentioned here that Chittagong Port handled 23 lakh TUEs of Container and 7 Core 70 lakh metric tons of bulk cargo during the last year and achieved ranks at 76th in Loyyeds list of global container handling ports, sources said.
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