Chittagong port surpasses annual throughput two months before year-end

The Chittagong port saw a massive growth of container handling as it topped the container volume of the last fiscal year with two months of the current fiscal left, reported The Financial Express (Bangladesh).

A senior port official said the prime maritime port of the country had handled 1.23 million TEUs until April 30 last against 1.21 million TEUs in the 2009-10 fiscal year.

The port this year is likely to handle over 1.5 million TEUs with the expected growth to be 25 per cent this year over the last fiscal year, sources said.

The volume of bulk cargo handling this year will also top that of last fiscal year as the trend of cargo handling shows, sources added.