BANGLADESH's Chittagong port, the busiest maritime port on the Bay of Bengal's coastline, handled a record 265,165 TEU in November, breaking the previous monthly all-time high of 259,210 TEU set in July.
The strong performances come after the port added 10 pieces of container handling equipment to its fleet in May. The equipment comprised a rail-mounted gantry crane, six rubber-tyre gantry cranes, a log handler and two mobile cranes with a 20-tonne capacity purchased from China, the United Arab Emirates, Germany and Italy, reported Dhaka's New Age Bangladesh.
In 2017 the port's container throughput reached 2.56 million TEU, up from one million TEU in 2009, port authority figures show.
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The strong performances come after the port added 10 pieces of container handling equipment to its fleet in May. The equipment comprised a rail-mounted gantry crane, six rubber-tyre gantry cranes, a log handler and two mobile cranes with a 20-tonne capacity purchased from China, the United Arab Emirates, Germany and Italy, reported Dhaka's New Age Bangladesh.
In 2017 the port's container throughput reached 2.56 million TEU, up from one million TEU in 2009, port authority figures show.
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