16 ships carrying wheat arrive in Ctg port
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Chittagong Office
CHITTAGONG, Oct 31: Sixteen ships carrying over 400 thousand metric tons of wheat have arrived in Chittagong port over the last one week. This is the highest number of wheat carrying ships arriving in the port in a week in recent times.
Port sources today said that as many as 58 ships with import cargo have reached the country's major maritime port over the last week beginning from October 24 till the morning of October 31 (Saturday).
Sources said the importers apart from bringing huge quantities of wheat have imported other consumer goods as well. But the second largest import in terms of number of ships is cement clinker. Nine ships with clinker are at the outer anchorage while another ship is discharging clinker at the jetty.
Fuel and fertilizer are two other major items imported this week. As many as seven ships with fertilizer and five tankers with fuel have reached the port. A tanker is discharging soybean oil through lightering tanker at the outer.
Seventeen ships have berthed in the jetties and are discharging imported cargo while 38 others are waiting at the outer. The ships anchored at the outer are either discharging cargo through lightering vessels or waiting for berth in the jetties. Three scrap ships imported over the week are waiting to be beached at Sitakunda ship breaking yard.
Apart from the ships unloading wheat in the jetties 12 ships with wheat are waiting at the outer. Besides, nine ships with cement clinker, two with gas oil, three with general import, five with fertilizer, two with salt, one with soybean oil, one with sugar, one with coal, one with container, one with yellow peas and one ship with ceramic raw material have anchored at the outer.
Of the 17 berthed ships, four have brought wheat, five have containers, two have general import, one has sugar, one has urea fertilizer, one has cement clinker, one has furnace oil, one has crude palm oil and one has high speed diesel.
CHITTAGONG, Oct 31: Sixteen ships carrying over 400 thousand metric tons of wheat have arrived in Chittagong port over the last one week. This is the highest number of wheat carrying ships arriving in the port in a week in recent times.
Port sources today said that as many as 58 ships with import cargo have reached the country's major maritime port over the last week beginning from October 24 till the morning of October 31 (Saturday).
Sources said the importers apart from bringing huge quantities of wheat have imported other consumer goods as well. But the second largest import in terms of number of ships is cement clinker. Nine ships with clinker are at the outer anchorage while another ship is discharging clinker at the jetty.
Fuel and fertilizer are two other major items imported this week. As many as seven ships with fertilizer and five tankers with fuel have reached the port. A tanker is discharging soybean oil through lightering tanker at the outer.
Seventeen ships have berthed in the jetties and are discharging imported cargo while 38 others are waiting at the outer. The ships anchored at the outer are either discharging cargo through lightering vessels or waiting for berth in the jetties. Three scrap ships imported over the week are waiting to be beached at Sitakunda ship breaking yard.
Apart from the ships unloading wheat in the jetties 12 ships with wheat are waiting at the outer. Besides, nine ships with cement clinker, two with gas oil, three with general import, five with fertilizer, two with salt, one with soybean oil, one with sugar, one with coal, one with container, one with yellow peas and one ship with ceramic raw material have anchored at the outer.
Of the 17 berthed ships, four have brought wheat, five have containers, two have general import, one has sugar, one has urea fertilizer, one has cement clinker, one has furnace oil, one has crude palm oil and one has high speed diesel.