Business Report :
The Chattogram Port is now facing a overcrowding of containers bound for Kamalapur Inland Container Depot (ICD) because of the suspension of transport through railway wagon since July 18 for countrywide violence and curfew centring the government job quota reform movement.
The port’s yard is currently grappling with 2,346 TEUs (Twenty-foot equivalent units) of Kamalapur ICD-bound containers, much higher from its capacity of 876 TEUs, the port officials said.
The congestion is not only causing financial losses for the importers, but also disrupting the port’s regular operations, they said.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Railway began transport through railway wagons on a limited scale on August 2, but the port authorities and importers said this would not be enough to ease the congestion.
On the same day, the port authorities wrote a letter to the railway authorities with the request to increase the number of wagons and ensure container transport under police protocol, Chattogram Port Secretary Omar Farque said.
