THE freight train service suspension, which began on August 3, has created a container congestion at chattogram port.
The port's dedicated space to store containers to be transported through freight trains now has 2,470 containers, which is nearly three times higher than its capacity of 876 TEU, reports Bangladesh's Daily Star.
The Chittagong Goods Port Yard is another designated spot for such containers, which normally releases around 200 TEU from Chattogram port to the Kamalapur Inland Container Depots every day.
Bangladesh Railway suspended freight train services amid students' countrywide government job quota movement on August 3 for security concerns and since then no container was transported through trains.
The state agency primarily transports raw materials, marble and stone, food grain, fertilizer through freight train.
'The situation is out of control and not a single container can be stored at the port yard now,' said Abdul Malek, master of the Chittagong Goods Port Yard.
Meanwhile, the Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) has sent a letter to Bangladesh Railway seeking quick resumption of the freight train services.
Businesses prefer freight trains to transport raw materials, which cost much less than the other means of transportation, importers said.
Imran Jahid, a businessman from Dhaka's Keraniganj area, said he is yet to get four containers of imported steel raw materials, which reached Chattogram port on July 15.
'I had to stop production in my steel factory due to the shortage of raw materials,' he said.
Saiful Islam, divisional railway manager of Chattogram, said: 'We will resume freight train services as soon as the authorities concerned give us go-ahead.'
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The port's dedicated space to store containers to be transported through freight trains now has 2,470 containers, which is nearly three times higher than its capacity of 876 TEU, reports Bangladesh's Daily Star.
The Chittagong Goods Port Yard is another designated spot for such containers, which normally releases around 200 TEU from Chattogram port to the Kamalapur Inland Container Depots every day.
Bangladesh Railway suspended freight train services amid students' countrywide government job quota movement on August 3 for security concerns and since then no container was transported through trains.
The state agency primarily transports raw materials, marble and stone, food grain, fertilizer through freight train.
'The situation is out of control and not a single container can be stored at the port yard now,' said Abdul Malek, master of the Chittagong Goods Port Yard.
Meanwhile, the Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) has sent a letter to Bangladesh Railway seeking quick resumption of the freight train services.
Businesses prefer freight trains to transport raw materials, which cost much less than the other means of transportation, importers said.
Imran Jahid, a businessman from Dhaka's Keraniganj area, said he is yet to get four containers of imported steel raw materials, which reached Chattogram port on July 15.
'I had to stop production in my steel factory due to the shortage of raw materials,' he said.
Saiful Islam, divisional railway manager of Chattogram, said: 'We will resume freight train services as soon as the authorities concerned give us go-ahead.'
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