CPA Chairman Rear Admiral SM Abul Kalam Azad moderated the meeting attended by Information Minister Hasan Mahmud.
Discussions with different foreign investors for the bay terminal are going on, said the state minister for shipping. The construction activity will start after the completion of negotiations, he added.
Mahmud hoped the Patenga container terminal will go into operation by next year.
The CPA took the bay terminal project several years back to construct a mega container terminal and create a six-kilometre-long channel for vessel movement.
It was planned to complete the full project in three phases while the first phase was earlier expected to be completed by 2021, creating around 4,00000 square metres of container storage space.