North Container Yard at Chittagong port

Dhaka: North Container Yard, a newly constructed container yard, will be inaugurated at Chittagong port today.

The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) constructed the container yard on 15.49 acres of land in front of the Port Hospital at a cost of Tk 48 crore, sources said.

Shipping Secretary Sheikh AK Motahar Hossain will open container yard.

The new container yard will have a capacity of storing 8400 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit) containers in four high stacks at a time.

With the port having a capacity of 27,200 TEUs at present, the new yard will raise the total capacity of the Chittagong port to 35,600 TEU containers, said CPA Secretary Syed Farhaduddin Ahmed.

The container yard will be able to handle 1,70,000 TEU containers annually, he added.