Bay Terminal to start operation by 2024: state minister for shipping
All three terminals of the Bay Terminal project of Chattogram port will start operation by 2024, State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury said today.
The minister spoke while talking to journalists after visiting the project site at Halishahar coast in the port city this afternoon.
Senior officials of the ministry and Public Private Partnership Authority Bangladesh accompanied the minister during the visit.
The terminal will be constructed on around 2,500 acres of land having a length of 6.15-kilometre area stretching from the backside of Chattogram Export Processing Zone to Rasmonighat on the bank of Bay of Bengal at Halishahar coast.
CPA took the plan around a decade ago.
In August 2016, the CPA appointed a joint venture, comprised of two German firms Sellhorn Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH and HPC Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH and KS Consultants Limited of Bangladesh for feasibility study of Bay Terminal.
In 2017, the firm submitted feasibility report and also submitted a master plan.
In its report submitted in 2017, the firm identified the project as fit economically and technically.
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