CHATTOGRAM port, Bangladesh's main port, has ended 2022 in the three million TEU club despite a fall of inbound-outbound cargo due to import curbs on luxury goods and global trade disruptions.
While the port handled some 74,500 fewer TEU in 2022 than in the previous year, ship handling increased by 3.10 per cent - 4,344 inbound ships from 4,209 ships in 2021.
As of December 29, the port handled 3.12 million TEU, including container handling volumes at the Kamalapur ICD (Inland Container Depot) and the Pangaon ICT (Inland Container Terminal). Another 16,000 TEU were expected to be handled in the last two days of the year to 3.14 million TEU, according to the port authority.
'Container handling dropped in other ports in the world as well due to the global economic slowdown,' Chattogram Port Authority secretary Omar Faruq told Dakha's Business Standard.
For the first time, Chattogram port entered the 'three-million-TEU club' in 2019. The port could not maintain the achievement the next year due to the Covid fallout. In 2020, Chattogram port handled around 2.8 million TEU.
This drove the port's ranking to 67th in 2020 from previous year's 58th in Lloyd's List.
As the pandemic waned subsequently, Chattogram port logged the highest volume of 3.2 million TEU in 2021, and as a result, Chattogram port's position in Lloyd's List moved up by four notches to 63rd in 2021.
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While the port handled some 74,500 fewer TEU in 2022 than in the previous year, ship handling increased by 3.10 per cent - 4,344 inbound ships from 4,209 ships in 2021.
As of December 29, the port handled 3.12 million TEU, including container handling volumes at the Kamalapur ICD (Inland Container Depot) and the Pangaon ICT (Inland Container Terminal). Another 16,000 TEU were expected to be handled in the last two days of the year to 3.14 million TEU, according to the port authority.
'Container handling dropped in other ports in the world as well due to the global economic slowdown,' Chattogram Port Authority secretary Omar Faruq told Dakha's Business Standard.
For the first time, Chattogram port entered the 'three-million-TEU club' in 2019. The port could not maintain the achievement the next year due to the Covid fallout. In 2020, Chattogram port handled around 2.8 million TEU.
This drove the port's ranking to 67th in 2020 from previous year's 58th in Lloyd's List.
As the pandemic waned subsequently, Chattogram port logged the highest volume of 3.2 million TEU in 2021, and as a result, Chattogram port's position in Lloyd's List moved up by four notches to 63rd in 2021.
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