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Container congestion returns to Chittagong terminals
POSTED: 9:12 a.m. EDT, June 5,2007
Congestion at 12 private Chittagong container terminals is slowing cargo movement because of the lack of yard space and movers, reports The Financial Express of Bangladesh.
Some 19,000 empty containers - mostly 20 footers - are clogging private terminals, delaying delivery of imported goods and blocking exports from leaving the port.
The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) recently permitted private depots to handle nine imported items to reduce congestion. Before permission was granted, private terminals were only permitted to handle exports.
Ahsan Aziz Shelly, CEO of the private depot operator Esack Brothers Limited, told The Financial Express that his firm was only equipped to handle exports and handling imports had created problems for their operations.
One problem is that full import containers tend to be TEU while FEU dominate exports. A large number of TEU empties remained stacked largely because of the size imbalance between import and export boxes.
Esack Brothers plans to acquire more yard movers to cope. Private container terminals are handling 400 containers of imported goods and around 700 export containers a day. |
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