First ship docks in Matarbari Deep-sea Port
Matarbari Deep Sea Port. File photo Our Correspondent, Cox’s Bazar Our Correspondent, Cox’s Bazar
The first ship has moored at the deep-sea port in Matarbari in Cox s Bazar.
The foreign ship reached the Matarbari Deep-sea Port as the authority conducted an experimental capacity test of the newly built port.
Loaded with steam generator parts, the Panama flag carrier Venus Triumph docked around 10:20am, sailing off from Indonesia s Pt. Pelabuhan Cilegon Mandiri port on December 22.
These apparatuses will be used for the coal-based power plant in that area, Mohammad Abul Kalam, director of state-owned Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh (CPGCBL), said.
Padma Bridge is response to all conspiracies: Khalid Mahmud
BSS
10th December, 2020 04:24:15
State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury on Thursday said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has responded to all conspiracies by constructing the Padma Bridge.
“The entire country is grateful to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the construction of the Padma Bridge,” the state minister said this after witnessing installation of the last (41st) span of the Padma Bridge at the Mawa of Munshiganj.
The last span of the bridge was put on 12 and 13 pillars around 11am, said a press release.
“Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina connected North Bengal with the mainland by building Bangabandhu Bridge… She (Prime Minister) is bringing 21 districts of the southern region under the direct road network by constructing the Padma Bridge,” he said.