New Mooring Container Terminal
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The implementation of Tk 435 core New Mooring Container Terminal project started in the middle of February 2004. Chittagong Port Authority is financing the project from its own fund.
On completion of the infrastructure development work, the operational and structural development of the project would be handed over to private sector.
When completed, the terminal with 1-KM jetty and backward linkage facilities will handle some 5 lakh TEUs (Twenty Equivalent Units) of containers annually.
The terminal on some 22-hectare of land would provide berthing for three container feeder vessels and two to three general cargo vessels at a time.
China Herbor Engineering Company won the tender and started the construction work on November 2004 and expected the project will be completed on December 2007. RubyCement is being exclusively using and approximately 55 thousand metric tones cement will be used for the project. |