Ctg Port to get two dredgers

CHATTOGRAM, May 7: Two cutter suction dredgers will be procured for Chattogram Port to enhance the navigability of Karnaphuli River from Sadarghat to Bakolia Char.

Sources in Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) said DPP (detailed project proposal) of the project has been approved in a meeting at Ministry of Shipping (MoS) on Sunday with Shipping Minister M Shajahan Khan in the chair.

Shipping Secretary Abdus Samad and CPA Chairman Commodore Zulfiquer Aziz, among others, were present in the meeting.

Shajahan Khan said service jetties at the upstream of jetty number-1 will be re-located and reconstructed.

Ongoing construction work of Patenga Container Terminal will be expedited for enhancing the port's container handling, he added.

A senior port official said 51 equipments will be procured soon for New Mooring Container Terminal of Chattogram Port.

Letter of Credit (LC) has already been opened for procurement of 19 equipment which will shortly arrive in the port. Procurement of 10 other equipment is under process.

The remaining 22 equipment will arrive within the next few months and will be installed in this calendar year, he added.

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