200m long ship at Bangladesh’s Patenga Container Terminal for the first time

For the first time ever, for the newly built Patenga Container Terminal of the Chittagong Port in Bangladesh recently, a 200-metre-long vessel named the Meghna Victory, with a draught of 13.2 metres, was brought to the Patenga Container Terminal after discharging goods to reduce the draught to eight metres.

Reports claimed this adding earlier, ships with a draught of 9.5 metres and a length of 190 metres were docked at the Chattogram Port even as on 16 January, a ship with 10 metres of draught and 200 metres in length was docked at a jetty of the Chittagong Container Terminal of the port for the first time on a trial basis.

Meanwhile, speaking to the media, the Chief Engineer of Mercantile Shipping, a sister concern of the Meghna Group, Md Abu Taher, said Meghna Victory arrived at Kutubdia at the outer anchorage of the Chittagong Port with 62,500 tonnes of wheat from the Vancouver Port in Canada on 16 February.