Ctg port on world’s ‘three millionaire’ list

The Chittagong port has made it to the list of ‘three millionaire ports’ club in the world by handling 30 lakh twenty-foot equivalent units of containers this year. There are 60 such seaports around the globe.

Earlier, the Bangladeshi port was ranked 64th in the list of the world’s top 100 container handling seaports by the maritime world’s internationally recognised Lloyd’s Marine Survey & Consulting.

The calculations of container handling were recorded from January 1 to December 22 this year, said Md Omar Faruk, secretary of the Chittagong Port Authority.

The addition of modern equipment, including new gantry cranes, and increased capacity of the port have helped the CPA a lot to achieve the glory, he said.

Most of the containers were handled at New Mooring Container Terminal and Chittagong Container Terminal. The two contributed more than 17 lakh containers to the total handled till 8am on December 21, when the target was achieved.