Cargo handling rises at Ctg port despite pandemic
The port was not shut for a single day even during the pandemic. The round-the-clock operation has helped the port handle more than three million TEUs in the just-concluded fiscal year, CPA Chairman M Shahjahan said. Photo: Star/File
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Chattogram port clocked 3.1 per cent year-on-year growth in container handling in the just-concluded fiscal year, which highlighted the growing foreign trade of Bangladesh, official data showed.
The premier port in the country handled 30,97,236 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers in the fiscal year 2020-21, up from 30,04,142 TEUs a year ago, according to data from the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA).