Each worker gets Tk 8,000

Readymade garment manufacturer A Plus Sweater Ltd had sent an RMG consignment to Chattogram Port from its Gazipur factory on eight covered vans on October 29 last year for shipment to Brazil.

The state coffers were robbed of Tk 258 crore for 26 counts of irregularities by the Chattogram Port Authority between fiscal 2017-18 and 2019-20, found the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).

The government will appoint a German joint venture as the consultant for the construction of a breakwater and channel dredging work at the proposed Bay Terminal, a long-awaited project of Chattogram port.

Sri Lanka's state-owned Jaya Container Terminal at Colombo Port has offered priority berthing facilities to Bangladeshi feeder vessels.

Untimely loading and unloading of containers has congested Chattogram port, the country’s premier seaport, with container vessels, which remain anchored due to the disruption.

Chattogram Port has been put on alert number 4 -- its highest security alert -- after the Meteorological Department issued danger signal number nine at the port due to super cyclone Amphan.

Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) again announces to waive the store rent fully for import containers brought in by BGMEA and BKMEA members on condition that they take their cargoes by May 4.

The High Court summons the Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) chairman, directing him to appear before it on January 26 and to explain for not complying its order over removal all illegal structures along the Karnaphuli river in the port area.

Loading and unloading at Chattogram Port are remain suspended as the authorities issued “highest security alert-4” due to cyclone “Bulbul” which may hit the Sundarbans this afternoon.

Goods worth around Tk 10,000 crore have been left abandoned by importers at the Chattogram Port for the past five and half years, depriving customs of revenue and leading to a space crisis.

The High Court has sought a report on the eviction drive targeting illegal structures along Karnaphuli river in Chattogram.