Notwithstanding the fall in container handling, Chittagong Port of Bangladesh, which is the principal seaport of the country and responsible for handling bulk of imports and exports including the all-important apparel exports, managed to end the year 2022 in the three-million-TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent) club.
This is as per media reports, which underlined as of 29 December 2022, Chittagong Port handled 31.24 lakh TEUs or 3.12 million TEUs containers, including container handling volumes at the Kamalapur ICD (Inland Container Depot) and the Pangaon ICT (Inland Container Terminal) even as another 16,000 TEUs were expected to be handled in the last two days of 2022 to 3.14 million TEUs, according to the port authority even as the reports went on to add the port handled some 74,500 fewer TEUs in 2022 than in the previous year even if ship handling increased by 3.10% – 4,344 inbound ships from 4,209 ships in 2021.
