Stay time of container vessels comes down to 2.50 days: CPA
Monday, 25 April 2011
Our Correspondent
CHITTAGONG, Apr 24: Chittagong Port chairman commodore Anwarul Islam today said the turnaround time of container vessels in the port has come down to below 2.50 days compared to five days in 2007. He however admitted that the average turnaround time of bulk cargo vessels has increased with the import of a large quantity of food grains in the recent times. "Container vessels' turnaround time that was 5.02 days in the year 2007 came down to 2.48 days in 2008 and it remains static until today and there is no congestion of container vessels either in the port or in the outer anchorage of the port," he said. He went on to say that the average dwell time of containers has decreased to 17 days in the year 2010, which was 23 days in 2007. "Once the CTMS (container terminal management system) is introduced by next August the dwell time of vessels will further lessen." The CPA chairman and the board of directors of the premier maritime port of Chittagong organised a view exchange meeting with the members of the print and electronic media on the occasion of the port's stepping into 125 years of formal commissioning at the CPA Training Complex near Bandar Bhaban. Members of the board and senior officials and department heads of the Chittagong Port Authority were present on the occasion. The port chairman said that keeping a vessel's least stay time in the port is the efficiency index of that port and the Chittagong Port is trying to hold on to that criteria of efficiency. Commodore Islam said that 92 per cent of the country's total external trade is handled through Chittagong Port as the growth of import and export through the port rises at the rate of 12 to 14 per cent annually, which is double the country's average GDP (gross domestic product). The CPA has undertaken over 20 development and infrastructure projects at an estimated cost of Tk 23,000 million in view of the country's enhanced demand and its growing importance as a regional hub for transit to the neighbouring countries. "The most challenging projects among them are capital dredging, full commissioning of the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) through private and efficient operators and the third one is the automation of the total container terminal management through the CTMS and the VTMIS (vessels traffic management information system).
CHITTAGONG, Apr 24: Chittagong Port chairman commodore Anwarul Islam today said the turnaround time of container vessels in the port has come down to below 2.50 days compared to five days in 2007. He however admitted that the average turnaround time of bulk cargo vessels has increased with the import of a large quantity of food grains in the recent times. "Container vessels' turnaround time that was 5.02 days in the year 2007 came down to 2.48 days in 2008 and it remains static until today and there is no congestion of container vessels either in the port or in the outer anchorage of the port," he said. He went on to say that the average dwell time of containers has decreased to 17 days in the year 2010, which was 23 days in 2007. "Once the CTMS (container terminal management system) is introduced by next August the dwell time of vessels will further lessen." The CPA chairman and the board of directors of the premier maritime port of Chittagong organised a view exchange meeting with the members of the print and electronic media on the occasion of the port's stepping into 125 years of formal commissioning at the CPA Training Complex near Bandar Bhaban. Members of the board and senior officials and department heads of the Chittagong Port Authority were present on the occasion. The port chairman said that keeping a vessel's least stay time in the port is the efficiency index of that port and the Chittagong Port is trying to hold on to that criteria of efficiency. Commodore Islam said that 92 per cent of the country's total external trade is handled through Chittagong Port as the growth of import and export through the port rises at the rate of 12 to 14 per cent annually, which is double the country's average GDP (gross domestic product). The CPA has undertaken over 20 development and infrastructure projects at an estimated cost of Tk 23,000 million in view of the country's enhanced demand and its growing importance as a regional hub for transit to the neighbouring countries. "The most challenging projects among them are capital dredging, full commissioning of the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) through private and efficient operators and the third one is the automation of the total container terminal management through the CTMS and the VTMIS (vessels traffic management information system).