Chittagong Port, which is the principal seaport of Bangladesh and responsible for the bulk of imports and exports including all-important apparel shipments, celebrated its 136th anniversary recently.
Meanwhile, interacting with the media, the Chairman of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA), Rear Admiral M Shahjahan maintained the port will be fully automated soon even as he underlined 50 software modules were being developed to automate various departments, aimed at making the port of global standards while also turn it into a paperless institution.
Known as the golden gate of Bangladesh’s economy, Chittagong Port and concerned authorities will deal with priority if any organization shows interest to launch direct shipping services from the port on the routes to the USA and Europe even as he added initiatives have been undertaken to build state-of-art chemical sheds at the port to facilitate safe import and export of hazardous, radioactive, chemical products while procurement of 2 modern scanners to scan export containers was underway, which will be in place by June 2023even as plans are there to construct a lighterage jetty at Hamidchar as well.
