Chattogram Bureau :
Ranking of Chattogram port was up by one point now.. It ranked 70th busiest container port in the world.Earlier it ranked 71st, 76th and 87th in the three previous editions, according toLloyd’s list sources.
Chattogram Port is the 70th busiest container port in the world after it moved one notch up in this year’s ranking of the Lloyd’s List. The 2018 edition of Lloyd’s List’s One Hundred Container Ports was published on Saturday and was based on the total handlings of containers in 2017.
The country’s premier port handled 25,66,597 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) of containers last year, up 9.36 percent from 23,46,909 TEUs in 2016.
Chattogram Port handles 98 percent of the total containerized goods transport in the country.The increase in the country’s foreign trade in recent years contributed to the higher growth in container handling through the port, said port users. They underscored the importance of infrastructure development and logistics supply of the port to cope up with the increasing container transport. Chinese port Shanghai retained the top post followed by Singapore’s second position. Sources said Shanghai Port handles more than 4 crores of TEUs containers in 2017 and the Singapore handles more than 3 crores TEUs, a reliable CPA sources said.
