Dwaipayan Barua

The Chattogram port has experienced a 2.92 percent year-on-year drop in the number of containers handled in the just concluded year

For the second year in a row, the Chattogram seaport may face a drop in annual container throughput due to frequent declines in monthly container handling.

Importers and exporters in Bangladesh started to feel the pinch of the transit disruption through the Red Sea route as major shipping lines announced, and in some cases even began implementing, additional surcharges to cover costs for re-routing their vessels around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope following attacks by the Yemen-based Houthi militant group on the Indian Ocean.

The Department of Shipping (DoS) has called a meeting at its Dhaka office today in the afternoon for lighter vessel owners to sit and fix a rift in a platform which coordinates the renting out of the vessels in rotation.

Bangladeshi exporters are apprehending prolonged delays in shipments and a surge in transport costs following recent attacks on commercial vessels on the Red Sea

CPA is hopeful of signing agreements with two global firms by June next year for the construction of two of three container terminals under a mega Bay Terminal project

Fesco introduced a container service in Bangladesh as a part of its push to facilitate direct shipping from the Indian subcontinent to Russia.

The port city’s New Market area has been a traffic menace for decades, making the daily commute a constant struggle for residents.

Port management in Bangladesh entered a new era yesterday through the appointment of a Saudi Arabia-backed foreign operator

much-awaited deal with a Saudi firm to operate the newly-built Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) at the Chattogram port to be signed tomorrow

19 private ICDs located in and around the port city which handle over 92 percent of the country’s exports

At least 30 lighter vessels ran aground in different areas on Patenga seashore during Cyclone Midhili last Friday. However, no casualties were reported in the incident.

One and a half years after the completion of construction, the newly-built Patenga container terminal (PCT) at the Chattogram port is finally going to be formally inaugurated.

Aiming to enhance its capacity in transporting seaborne cargo, the state-owned Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) has taken an initiative to add a total of 18 new ships to its fleet in a short period.

One and a half years after the completion of construction, the newly-built Patenga container terminal (PCT) at the Chattogram port is finally going to be formally inaugurated.

Contrary to the notion that kids today are mostly confined to screens, Ahona Rida Zahra, a 10-year-old from Chattogram, has trekked to Annapurna Base Camp in the Himalayas, standing tall at 4,130 metres, last week.

Importers rushed to the Chittagong port yesterday as they look to secure the delivery of imported goods on the last day of the week and during the weekend in order to avoid being caught in another spell of blockade.

Importers rushed to the Chittagong port today as they look to secure the delivery of imported goods on the last day of the week and during the weekend in order to avoid being caught in another spell of blockade

Construction work on the first terminal of Bangladesh’s maiden deep sea port at Matarbari in the Moheshkhali upazila of Cox’s Bazar will start soon as the tender process for appointing a contractor is in the final stages.

Red Sea Gateway Terminal International (RSGTI) has been finally nominated by the government to operate the newly built Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) of the Chattogram port for 22 years.