The unloading of the second shipment of rice from Vietnam begins at Ctg Port from yesterday. The second consignment of rice arrived at the outer anchorage of Chittagong port on Sunday morning.
“The ship, MV Fax, carrying 27,000 tonnes of rice reached the port around 10 am,” said Zahirul Islam, controller of movement and storage of Chittagong’s food department.
The officials of Food department collected the specimen of the rice for laboratory test at 3 pm, he said.
“The rice will be unloaded after a lab test to verify whether it was sent as per our requirement,” he added.
