Mikhail Voytenko 40-foot container fell overboard into river from container ship BLPL GRACE, berthed at Chittagong Port, on Dec 29 during offloading. Container remained afloat, was picked by tug and towed back to berth, where it was lifted out of water by BLPL GRACE crane. Container ship BLPL GRACE, IMO 9134672, dwt 23064, capacity 1728 […]
Read MoreDwaipayan Barua Chittagong port posted a 3.32 percent growth in container handling in 2019, the slowest in seven years, pointing to a slowdown in economic activities. Port users have blamed Bangladesh’s foreign trade being sluggish for the lower growth in the port’s annual container throughput. The port handled around 2.89 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) […]
Read MoreAl Rahman, Senior Correspondent | Banglanews24.com Chittagong : The main seaport of the country is handling 8 thousand 5 ships in the country. In 28, the ship was handling 7,900. In one year, it has increased by 5, 5.7 percent. Chittagong Port has achieved a record of handling 1 million containers in the current outgoing year, handling a […]
Read MoreAsif Siddiqui, Chittagong Chittagong port. Photo: The Voice of Tomorrow Chittagong Port Authority is launching a new digital system instead of a 5-year-old method of shipping ships. The shipping agent will no longer be required to attend daily berthing meetings at the Chittagong port building to get the sheep’s permission or berthing on the ship’s jetty […]
Read MoreAsif Siddiqui, Chittagong December 25, 2014 1:17 pm Photo: Robi Shankar There are 5 seaports in the world that operate 1 million or 1 million single container premises annually. The name of the main Chittagong seaport has been added to the list of the three million port. Chittagong seaport has set a new record of […]
Read MoreBy Baibhav Mishra -October 23, 2019 EagleRail’s 100% electric overhead container movement system eliminates port gridlock, reduces emissions and increases capacity EagleRail Container Logistics, a global container logistics company based in Chicago, Illinois, USA, today announced officials at the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) in Chattogram, Bangladesh have signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) to begin the first steps […]
Read MoreBangladesh Special Correspondent | Dec 21, 2018 10:15AM EST Currently, Chittagong port has a 50,000-TEU storage capacity, including the yard at Pangaon Inland Container Terminal. (Above: Chittagong port.) Photo credit: Shutterstock.com. The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) will build a 1 million-square-meter (1.19 million-square-yard) mega-container yard, which will substantially increase storage capacity, lessening port yard congestion. […]
Read MoreSpecial Correspondent | Feb 11, 2019 4:23PM EST Ships carrying boxes bound for Pangaon will receive priority berthing at Chittagong port. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com. The government of Bangladesh has begun offering ‘priority berthing’ to vessels carrying containers destined to Pangaon Container Terminal (PCT), located near the capital city of Dhaka. The majority of Bangladesh’s $52.9 […]
Read MoreThe gangways are manned by a watchman who is responsible to the SSO or OOW. Primary responsibility of a Gangway Watchman to control access to the ship, control of people and equipment to and from the vessel, searching of personnel and/or baggage, reporting of security incidents or breaches. Additionally, Gangway watchman must be trained for […]
Read MoreBy Baibhav Mishra -January 7, 20190 Tanker scrapping started in 2018 with a bang, as a combination of low freight rates, high scrap prices, an aging tanker fleet, and the impact of upcoming vessel regulations combined to create a feasible environment for scrapping. Companies around the world have scrapped a record number of large crude tankers in […]
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