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Ctg Port completes fuel unloading from 11 of 21 ships

Amid ongoing tensions in the Middle East, a total of 18 fuel-carrying vessels, including LNG tankers, have crossed the Strait of Hormuz and reached Bangladesh. According to port authorities, fuel unloading has already been completed from 11 out of 21 ships, while unloading operations are currently u...

National,Business & Commerce,CORPORATE & BRAND,Country, Districts

BSC now turns profitable

Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) is on the way to turning loss-making into a profitable organization, the main reasons for which are adding new ships and removing old and unprofitable shipsBSC has purchased new ships with its own funds, which will increase annual income and increase the capacit...

National,Power, Energy, Oil, Gas,Chattogram,Country, Districts

Jet fuel supply thru' pipeline to Ctg airport starts

For the first time, jet fuel transportation has started through pipeline at Chattogram Airport to ensure safe fuel supply in a modern, environment-friendly, time-saving manner.Plane fuel transportation through pipeline has started at Shah Amanat International Airport, 5.77 kilometers away from the m...

National,Business & Commerce,Power, Energy, Oil, Gas,Infrastructure, Development,Chattogram,Country, Districts

Fuel oil supply from Ctg to Dhaka thru pipeline begins

Fuel oil supply from Chattogram to Dhaka through a 250-kilometre underground pipeline began on Saturday, which is expected to cut logistical delays, combat corruption and reduce transport costs.Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan inaugurated the project at Padma Oi...

National,Front Page

Ctg-Dhaka fuel pipeline set to open Aug 16

The much-hyped Chattogram-Dhaka fuel pipeline is set to be officially inaugurated on August 16 as Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has already completed several trial runs of diesel supply successfully.Energy Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan will inaugurate the fuel pipeline at Guptakhal Pad...

National,Back Page

Ctg Port sets record in container handling

Chittagong Port, known as the lifeline of the country's economy, has set a new record in container handling in 2024-2025 fiscal year despite various challenges. Container handling at Chittagong Port has been hampered for about two months due to adverse conditions like July uprising, prolong...

Business & Commerce

Container & Cargo handling increases at Ctg Port in FY 2024

Container and cargo handling has increased at Chattogram Port in the financial year 2023-2024 compared to the previous year despite a decrease in ship arrivals.   The port authorities said that the number of containers and cargo handling has increased this financial year due to the larger ...

Country, Districts

Heavy rain cripples life in Chattogram city

Heavy rains crippled the life in Chattogram as most of the roads of different parts of the port city went under knee to waist-deep water due to Cyclone Remal causing immense hardship to the city dwellers on Monday.The number of public transport was fewer while the rickshaw pullers charged commuters ...

Country, Districts

CMC Hospital burn unit construction to begin next year

A four-member delegation of Chinese government and Sheikh Hasina Burn Unit Head Professor Samant Lal Sen with CMC Hospital team held a discussion on the implementation of the Burn Unit of Chittagong Medical College (CMC) Hospital and visited the place of Burn Unit.  The Chinese authorities expr...

Country, Districts

‘19 more projects to be unveiled with Bangabandhu Tunnel’

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Chattogram on October 28 to inaugurate the country's first tunnel built under Karnaphuli in Chattogram.  During the visit, she will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of 19 more projects besides the tunnel.According to district administration sou...

City

Manpower shortage hits CCC activities

The Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) has been suffering from manpower crisis. For this reason, the CCC is struggling to continue providing services to the people of Chattogram due to various complications, even if the posts are vacant.The movement of labour unions demanding the permanent of existin...

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One lakh prepaid gas metres in Ctg soon

Installation of one lakh prepaid gas meters has started in Chattogram, after bringing some 60,000 customers under prepaid meters in the first phase. Such initiative would substantially prevent gas wastage.Karnaphuli Gas Company Limited (KGDCL) has signed an agreement with Japan's Toyokeiki Compa...

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Ctg elevated expressway to open soon

The 16-km elevated expressway, from Lalkhan Bazar in Chattogram to Patenga, is nearing completion.  The elevated expressway project was approved in July 2017 at an ECNEC meeting to reduce congestion in the city of Chottogram. The cost is estimated at 3 thousand 250 crore 83 lakh taka. &nbs...

City

Ferry service back in Karnaphuli

The ferry service through the Karnaphuli River between Boalkhali upazila and Chattogram city is back. The service began at Kalurghat on Friday (July 22).The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has decided to operate the ferry service for renovation work of Kalurghat Bridge. The decision was taken al...

City

‘Matarbari Port will be the main commercial hub of country’

 Matarbari deep sea port is being constructed on 31 acres of land at Maheshkhali in Cox's Bazar, about 70 km by sea from Chittagong port.  A dam or breakwater is being built in the sea in a special system at this seaport.  There the soil is being dug with 'Cassiopeia-V'. &...

Country, Districts

Ctg Evercare hospital success in bone marrow transplant treatment at low cost

Bone marrow transplant can be done in Chattogram Evercare Hospital at a much lower cost than neighbouring countries.  A new center for specialized treatment of various blood diseases (blood cancer, thalassemia, aplastic anemia etc.) including bone marrow transplant has been started in this hosp...

City

Bay Terminal to be operational by 2026: Khalid

 State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury MP said that after 135 years, Chattogram Port has achieved the capacity to handle large ships. Chattogram port is the heart of the country's economy.  It's not a slogan;  the reality  Bangladesh stops when Chittagong po...

Country, Districts

‘BPC will form a separate co for pipeline maintenance’

Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has undertaken the operation of petroleum liquid fuel like gas.  The company has started work on forming a separate company for maintenance of petroleum pipelines.  A 'Petroleum Transmission Company' is being formed on the model of Gas Transmi...

Country, Districts

Authorities ban rappelling on pilgrimage site of Sitakunda

Birupakkha and Chandranath temple in Sitakunda is one of the major pilgrimage sites for Sanatan devotees.  Every day many Sanatani devotees come from home and abroad.  Besides, people from different communities flock to Chandranath Hill to enjoy the natural beauty of the hill.Over thousand...

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Bangabandhu Tunnel work almost done

The work on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel, the country's first tunnel under construction beneath the Karnaphuli river, is almost complete and the infrastructure is expected to be inaugurated next month.Roads and Highways and Bridges Department is now constructing the connecting roads ...