CHATTOGRAM: Chittagong port, the prime sea port of Bangladesh and Kolkata Port Trust (KPT) are being ready for transshipment between the two neighbouring countries. The trial transshipment will start from the current week.
A ship named MV Senjuti already left the Chittagong sea port for Kolkata Shyama Proshad Mukharje port which will return with transshipment containers in the current week. The trial transshipment will start on return of MV Senjuti loaded with transshipment containers to Chittagong port, concerned sources said.
The trial transportation of goods started by road from Bangladesh to North-Eastern states of India earlier.
Habibur Rahman, Manager of Mango Shipping Line, the local agent of MV Senjuti, said, "The ship reached Chittagong port on Friday with 155 TEUs of containers and left Chittagong on Saturday for Kolkata Shyama Proshad Mukharje port. We hope that the ship will reach Kolkata on July 13 and will return to Chittagong port with 4 containers of transshipment along with other containers. The transshipment containers will be transported through Akhaura by road to India again."
Marking a new landmark in maritime relations between India and Bangladesh, union shipping minister Mansukh Mandaviya virtually flagged off the first trial movement of container ships from Kolkata Port to Agartala in Tripura via Chittagong port in Bangladesh on Thursday.
“Historical day in maritime relations of India and Bangladesh. North Eastern Region of India is now connected by sea-ports of Bangladesh! Digitally flagged off the first trial movement of container ship from Kolkata Port to Agartala & Assam via Chattogram Port of Bangladesh,” Mandaviya tweeted on Thursday.
This will greatly benefit India’s north eastern states by cutting transportation time and cost through land routes to the north east. It takes over 1,200 km for goods to reach from Bengal to reach to reach the north east. Access to the Chittagong port will cut down the distance by almost half, Bipab Deb, chief minister of Tripura had earlier stated.
The two neighbouring countries signed an MOU on June 6, 2015 and an agreement on October 25, 2018. The standard operating procedure (SOP) on use of Chittagong and Mongla ports of Bangladesh was finalized in 2019.
“The vessel carrying four transit containers loaded with TMT steel bars will be offloaded at the Chittagong Port. They goods would then be loaded on trailers. From the Chittagong Port the containers will travel through road and cover 200 km to reach Agartala,” said a spokesman of the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port in Kolkata, formerly known as Kolkata Port.
Sarbananda Sonowal, Chief Minister of Assam and Biplab Deb, Chief Minister of Tripura have welcomed this.
A statement issued by the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port said that in future rice, wheat, pulses, steel and project cargo is expected to be transported to north east region using this multimodal route.
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