Chittagong Port, which handles bulk of Bangladesh’s exports and imports including the all-important apparel shipments, is in the news these days.
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Close on heels of reports that suggested that the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has doubled storage rents for importers even as it was getting choked with increasing number of containers subsequent to a spurt in imports ahead of the Ramadan, a recent report suggested that a substantial volume of hazardous and flammable goods remain piled up at the port shed for a long period of time, posing risk to the port.
The report citing CPA sources said total of 1,862 packages or equivalent to 466 metric tonnes of hazardous and chemical goods have remained piled up at ‘P’ shed of the port till 31 January, of which, 1,137 packages or equivalent to 150 metric tonnes of the hazardous chemical have long remained undelivered and turned risky for the port even as the CPA, in a letter to the Customs House, has requested to clear hazardous goods that remained undelivered for long.
We are requesting to clear those items through auction…, reportedly, stated the CPA in its letter to the Customs House even as it maintained otherwise to destroy all these risky goods at the earliest.
