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The country's largest container terminal at New Mooring in Chittagong will be put into operation from September next with 33 per cent of its installation work already complete, reports BSS.
The New Mooring Container Terminal (NMCT) Project Director Sirajul Islam told the news agency that the future of the NMCT had become bright after removal of complicacy relating to the acquiring of 14 acres of land out of the total 55 acres for the terminal.
He said, "The complication arising from land acquisition was settled following the interference of former commerce minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and payment of Tk 620 million to the affected people."
Islam said the affected people at the New Mooring site had been rehabilitated at the Agrabad Baropool areas through allotment of plots.
Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) Chairman ASM Shahdat Hossain said the terminal would have the capacity to handle an additional quantity of 0.537 million Twenty Equivalent Unit (TEU) cargo.
The CPA Chief Planning Officer Hadi Hossain said NMCT would have the capacity to handle five ships at a time. With the installation of NMCT, the country would be earning a Tk 2.22 billion in additional revenue of which 50 per cent would come in foreign currency, he added.
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