First overflow container yard to go into operation in August
FE Report | Saturday, 5 July 2008
The country's first overflow container yard, built by the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA), will go into operation in early August to facilitate faster delivery of import consignments, senior port officials said Friday.
"We expect to commission the newly constructed yard in the first week of August. It will raise the operational efficiency of the premier port to a new height," Hadi Hossian Babul, member (administration and planning) told the FE.
The yard, built near the Chittagong Port, can accommodate 8400 containers at a time, and its annual capacity is around 163,000 containers, more than one sixth of the port's total container handling.
The yard has been constructed at a cost of Tk 490 million.
The yard will handle only FCL (full container load) import containers and those cargoes will be delivered from there.
Mr Hadi also said the terminal will have modern container handling equipment to expedite cargo movement.
"We have already floated international tender for procuring 12 straddle carriers for the yard," he said.
The straddle carriers, each having a capacity to carry 50-tonne containers, are used for moving containers in the port yard.
Zahid Hosain, CPA Terminal Manager, said there will be no container congestion in near future following operation of the yard as it will delivery around 1200 import containers each day.
"The port will also be free from hundreds of trucks after commissioning of the yard as trucks will then go there to carry import cargoes," Mr Zahid added.
The project was conceived in 2005 and the government purchase committee approved it in February 2006.
The construction work of the yard on 63000 square metres of land began in June 2006 by Al Amin Construction.
Currently, container handling in Chittagong port is growing at the rate of 14 per cent annually.
"We expect to commission the newly constructed yard in the first week of August. It will raise the operational efficiency of the premier port to a new height," Hadi Hossian Babul, member (administration and planning) told the FE.
The yard, built near the Chittagong Port, can accommodate 8400 containers at a time, and its annual capacity is around 163,000 containers, more than one sixth of the port's total container handling.
The yard has been constructed at a cost of Tk 490 million.
The yard will handle only FCL (full container load) import containers and those cargoes will be delivered from there.
Mr Hadi also said the terminal will have modern container handling equipment to expedite cargo movement.
"We have already floated international tender for procuring 12 straddle carriers for the yard," he said.
The straddle carriers, each having a capacity to carry 50-tonne containers, are used for moving containers in the port yard.
Zahid Hosain, CPA Terminal Manager, said there will be no container congestion in near future following operation of the yard as it will delivery around 1200 import containers each day.
"The port will also be free from hundreds of trucks after commissioning of the yard as trucks will then go there to carry import cargoes," Mr Zahid added.
The project was conceived in 2005 and the government purchase committee approved it in February 2006.
The construction work of the yard on 63000 square metres of land began in June 2006 by Al Amin Construction.
Currently, container handling in Chittagong port is growing at the rate of 14 per cent annually.