Chottagram Bureau :
The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) procured a total of ten container handling equipment including the Rail Mounted Gantry Crane (RMG) and Rubber Tyred Gantry Crane (RTG).
Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan on Thursday inaugurated the operations of that equipment in Newmooring Container Terminal (NCT) site.
The government had undertaken a step to procure 51 equipment, including ship-to-shore gantry cranes, for smooth handling of the Chittagong Port.
Out of 51 equipment 10 would be Rail Mounted gantry cranes, 20 rubber tyred gantry cranes, 10 straddle carriers, one mobile harbour crane, five container movers and four reach stackers.
The Chittagong Port, prime sea port of the country, has been languishing with various problems including, shortage of jetties and equipment.
As a result, maritime trade of the country has been badly affected. It may be mentioned that the operational activities of the Chittagong Port had been started with 13 jetties after liberation.
during the last 45 years, only 7 jetties had been built up.
The stakeholders and the business community opined that the total numbers of jetties of the Chittagong Port should have 60, to cope with the increasing trend of the trade.
The annual growth of the Chittagong Port is 20 percent. But no infrastructural facilities have been created in line with the annual growth rate of the port.
The CPA had taken up the projects of Patenga Terminal, Karnaphuli terminal, Laldia Bulk terminal and Bay terminal.
The stakeholders alleged that the Chittagong Port has only 30 per cent equipment against the demand. The Chittagong Port needs at least 12 gantry cranes.
The Shipping Minister announced from the inaugural session that the construction works of Bay terminal and Patenga Container Terminal would go into operation by 2020 next.
The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) procured a total of ten container handling equipment including the Rail Mounted Gantry Crane (RMG) and Rubber Tyred Gantry Crane (RTG).
Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan on Thursday inaugurated the operations of that equipment in Newmooring Container Terminal (NCT) site.
The government had undertaken a step to procure 51 equipment, including ship-to-shore gantry cranes, for smooth handling of the Chittagong Port.
Out of 51 equipment 10 would be Rail Mounted gantry cranes, 20 rubber tyred gantry cranes, 10 straddle carriers, one mobile harbour crane, five container movers and four reach stackers.
The Chittagong Port, prime sea port of the country, has been languishing with various problems including, shortage of jetties and equipment.
As a result, maritime trade of the country has been badly affected. It may be mentioned that the operational activities of the Chittagong Port had been started with 13 jetties after liberation.
during the last 45 years, only 7 jetties had been built up.
The stakeholders and the business community opined that the total numbers of jetties of the Chittagong Port should have 60, to cope with the increasing trend of the trade.
The annual growth of the Chittagong Port is 20 percent. But no infrastructural facilities have been created in line with the annual growth rate of the port.
The CPA had taken up the projects of Patenga Terminal, Karnaphuli terminal, Laldia Bulk terminal and Bay terminal.
The stakeholders alleged that the Chittagong Port has only 30 per cent equipment against the demand. The Chittagong Port needs at least 12 gantry cranes.
The Shipping Minister announced from the inaugural session that the construction works of Bay terminal and Patenga Container Terminal would go into operation by 2020 next.
