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The point in question is not the project, but the site designated for the project implementation i.e., CRB which is metaphorically called the lung of Chattogram. Photo: Prothom Alo >
The point in question is not the project, but the site designated for the project implementation i.e., CRB which is metaphorically called the lung of Chattogram. Photo: Prothom Alo
One hundred and one distinguished citizens from Chattogram, in a joint statement, have urged the government not to set up a hospital in CRB area of the port city fearing that it will leave a bad impact on environment and ecosystem.
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).
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.
Pandemic may trigger corporate, household debt defaults
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The economic crisis stemming from the fallouts of the coronavirus pandemic is likely to trigger a series of corporate and household debt defaults, said Mahbubur Rahman, president of the International Chamber of Commerce Bangladesh, yesterday.
Bangladesh has recorded one of the world s fastest growth rates in the past few years with a stable economic performance, reducing poverty and social inequalities, he told a virtual 25th annual council of the chamber s executive board.
Quoting a recent International Labour Organisation (ILO) report, Rahman said Bangladesh was now faced with battling both the pandemic and its economic fallouts.