Mohammad Suman

With cases of coronavirus infection increasing among staffers, officials at Chattogram Customs House have started a token system to limit the number of visitors on the premises from Sunday.

Medicine traders are hiking price of pain and fever medicine and disinfectant items with the excuse of supply shortage amid the coronavirus pandemic in Chattogram city.

Export and import activities through Chattogram port may face a fresh round of setback as the fear of contracting the novel coronavirus is spreading like wildfire among the employees of the premier seaport and the customs house.

With great trepidation and no other choice, about 1.5 lakh workers in Chattogram have joined their workstation from April 26.

Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) is facing trouble as it can’t store imported fuel oil anymore. Its tanks are almost full as the demand for fuel in the country decreased by 60 percent due to the nationwide shutdown since March 26.

The retail price of bleaching power in Chattogram almost tripled over the past month due to a rise in demand for disinfectants following the coronavirus outbreak.

Local production of personal protective equipment (PPE) gained momentum yesterday after a joint initiative got approval from the government about the design and fabrics in a development that would boost morale of the health professionals fighting the coronavirus.

The outer anchorage of Chittagong port, the largest entrance to the naval facilities of Bangladesh, has been almost out of the customs’ watch for the last nine years.

The Customs House Chattogram bought two patrol boats for Tk 2.86 crore in the mid 80s to monitor the outer anchorage of Chittagong port and end illegal loading and offloading.

Income of BNP mayor candidate for Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls Shahadat Hossain is around five times higher than his main opponent, Awami League nominee Rezaul Karim Chowdhury.

If you see a lorry on the street, chances are it was built by bolting a modified shipping container onto the chassis.

As soon as you enter the premises you’ll come face-to-face with a crocodile with its jaws wide open -- as if it is anxiously waiting to devour its prey. As you turn your eyes, a huge 13-feet python, with its body forming a twisted pattern, reveals itself.

Unclaimed goods worth crores of taka rot away every year at the Chattogram port for the customs authority’s lengthy auction process that takes six to 12 months.

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) arrested three persons of a gang that cheated at least 55 youths with fake appointment letters of National Board of Revenue (NBR), Chattogram Custom House, Bangladesh Army and Chattogram Port. Members of the gang took bribes of Tk 8-26 lakh from each person for these jobs.

Two top officials of the partner company of state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation have allegedly embezzled over Tk 100 crore by transferring the money to three companies they have shares in.

Traders had permission to import 183,000 tonnes of onion, but they could bring in only 8,992 tonnes in the last two months due to a lack of adequate number of refrigerated containers in ships, businesses said.

Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) is set to launch a research vessel today to conduct study for increasing fish production in Kaptai Lake -- the biggest artificial lake in South-east Asia -- located in Rangamati district.

Noakhali residents Md Ismail (30), Md Yusuf (30) and Md Rakib (28), came to port city in early November in search of work.

Julekha Khanam Farzana told her younger son Atifur Rahman that she would come back to pick him up from school after dropping his elder brother at tutor’s house in Chattogram city’s Patharghata area.

Chattogram-based Alam Traders received a consignment of 59,880 kilogrammes of Burmese onions at Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf land port on November 11. The importer paid about Tk 43 for each kg, show its documents.