12,500 tonnes of rice arrive at Ctg port from Vietnam

A vessel named "MV THAI BINH 01" carrying 12,500 metric tons (MT) of Sunned (Atap) rice from Vietnam under the Government-to-Government (G2G) agreement has arrived at the Chattogram Port, reports BSS.

Under the G2G agreement, a contract has been made for importing a total of 100,000 tonnes of Atap rice from Vietnam, said a PID press release on Saturday.

In the meantime, 72,700 tonnes of rice have already arrived here as per the agreement.

Meanwhile, the sample testing of the rice, kept on the ship, has already been completed.

Necessary measures have been taken to start the rice-unloading process, it added.