96 percent of the containers imported and exported by the port, on the road
3 percent by rail
1 percent of the water is being brought to the river.
The port of Chittagong Port has been completed for 41 years to transport the container on Thursday. In this 41 years, the main reliance on transporting goods from the port to the container. Compared to the roadways, the rail and waterways are costly, but the goods are still not being transported in the container.
The information of the port is found that the container's goods were brought from the port at the beginning of the transport of the container, on the road. After 10 years of transporting the container through the port, the railway was introduced in Chittagong in 1987 from Chittagong to Dhaka, bringing the container to the Kamlapur Depot. In 2013, the container transport was introduced as the most cost-effective means of internal waterways. These waterways were introduced to carry container at Pangaon Terminal on the bank of Buriganga river near Keraniganj near Dhaka.
A comparative comparison of these three pathways is that, last year, the total container was raised by the port, 25 lakh 66 thousand were made. Only three percent of these containers (74 thousand 907) have been brought by rail - from Chittagong to Dhaka. About 1 percent (25 thousand 698) are in transit through the river. The remaining 96 percent (24 lakh 65 thousand) have been transported on the road.
Traders say the cost of transporting the container by rail and waterways is very high, but the cost of the goods can be taken in different factories across the country from the port to the streets very fast. Traders have given importance to the time to get product hands. There are many problems in the waterways and railways so the goods have not been transported so long. By taking several steps to solve the problem, transport of goods will be increased in these two ways.
More than 70 percent of the goods brought in the container at Chittagong port, across the country, including Dhaka, all over the country. As a result, a large number of import-export products are being transported on Dhaka-Chittagong highway. However, to transport a ship's container goods on the domestic waterways, 120 container transit vehicles or 240 trucks are needed.
Band data shows that a decade ago, 10 percent of the total import-export container was brought to the railway. However, with the help of time, the supply of container goods by rail has not increased and vice versa. Although the use of waterways increases, it is still very less as the total import-export.
Asked about the port's chairman, Commodore Zulfiqar Aziz, in the first light on Wednesday, in the last few years, infrastructure has been developed for transporting the container to the railways, waterways and roads in the last few years. There are no problems with transporting the container in the railways and the waterways. Traders are now interested in using the waterways. If the transport of container is increased by the waterways and the railways, the benefits of the management of the port will be as well as the financial savings of the businessmen.
A port in Port Port named 'Port Grande' in 1994 was said to be called 'SS Tenacity' on March 22, 1977, in which six containers were called. Container Paribahan started the journey for the first time in the country. In this 41 years, the container has been transported by the port for a total of 25 million.
Before the transport of the container, all the goods were brought in the huge openings of the ship (hatched) in packed or open form. It was a lot of time to go down to pick up valuable goods including machinery. After the introduction of the container, product protection is also ensured. Port information shows that almost 100 percent of the goods exported through the port are transported to the container. Except for fuel and edible oil, 36 percent of the imports are brought to the container. The convenience of transporting goods to the container is that, a small amount of commodities can be easily imported from any country in the world, which is costly without containers.
Container's father Malcolm MacLean inaugurated the United States on April 26, 1956, in this revolution for transporting goods. McLean's 'C-Land' company, after ten years, in 1966, the United States expanded the transport of goods from containers to Europe. In this way, around the world, in the Chittagong, this vehicle is introduced in Chittagong.