SMP unlikely to be operational by June 30
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 17: Although 64 per cent work of Single Point Mooring (SPM) project in Maheshkhali have been completed till Friday, the mega project may not be implemented by June next year due to delays caused multiple times in the last one and a half years by various reasons, including...
Read more
Matarbari: The next hub of power and port
Only four years ago, vast swaths of Matarbari at Moheshkhali in Cox's Bazar had been used for salt farming. Now, huge turbines and chimneys have changed the landscape of the remote area in the southeast coast of Bangladesh.A huge construction project is gradually giving shape to a Tk 360 billion...
Read more
Nepal keen to use Bangladeshi ports
Nepal expressed its willingness to use Bangladeshi ports in international trade to reduce its dependence on Kolkata port.This was observed Thursday by Nepal's Ambassador in Bangladesh Dr. Banshidhar Mishra during a courtesy call on FBCCI Senior Vice President Mostofa Azad Chowdhury Babu at the FBCCI office in Dhaka, according to...
Read more
BSCIC launches e-commerce platform
The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) has launched an e-commerce platform enabling local entrepreneurs to sell different products in the domestic and global markets, reports BSS. Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun inaugurated the platform at a hotel on Thursday evening, said a press release on Friday. State...
Read more
Passenger Terminal Building opens at ICP Petrapole
A new passenger terminal building (I) was inaugurated at Integrated Check Post Petrapole - on India's side of the Benapole border -on Friday in a major boost to modernisation of border infrastructure and to further strengthen Bangladesh-India connectivity, reports UNB.ICP Petrapole, the largest land port in South Asia, is the...
Read more
