Presented in Colombo International Maritime Conference 2015

1. Maritime Development in Bangladesh
Port and Terminals
Ahamedul Karim Chowdhury
Chittagong Port Authority
Ahamedul Karim Chowdhury
Terminal Manager, Chittagong Port Authority
akccpa@gmail.com
COLOMBO INTERNATIONAL MARITIME CONFERENCE - CIMC 2015

2. Content
• Introduction
• Development of Chittagong Port
• Major Import & Export of Bangladesh
• Trade Pattern (Origin & Destination of Import & Export)
• Existing Situation of Chittagong Port including container terminals
– Container ships
– Break bulk or General cargo vessels
– Ro-Ro or Vehicle Carriers
– Dry Bulk ships
– Tankers
• Forecasting Container traffic in future
• Plan and implementation progress to cope with future demand
• Development of rail based ICD
• Development of Waterway based Inland Container Terminal
• Development of Mongla Port
• Development of Payra Deep Sea Port

3. Geographical location of Ports in the region

4. Development of Chittagong Port
• Chittagong is the principal sea
port of Bangladesh, situated in
the south of Bangladesh,
handling more than 92% of the
sea-born trade.
• The port is basically a river
port situated 16 km upstream
from the Bay of Bengal.
• About 70 percent of freight
movements at Chittagong Port
originate and are destined for
customers within the Greater
Dhaka Region and;
• A significant portion of trade
(about 30 percent) originates
or is destined for Chittagong
region.

5. Major Imports of Bangladesh
• Textiles
• Raw cotton
• Food stuff
• Chemicals
• Paper, Waste paper, Wood pulp, Timber,
• Machinery
• Steel/Iron products
• Electrical & Electronic products
• Building materials &
• others.

6. Major Export of Bangladesh
• Readymade Garments
• Jute & Jute products
• Leather products
• Tea
• Frozen foods
• Urea
• Ammonia
• Naphtha and
• others.

7. Bangladesh Imports and Export by Country (%-share in total)
Import Export

8. Chittagong Port has the following berthing facilities
at present
• General Cargo Berths (GCB): 13 consecutive berths (total length 2,100 m
approx.) constructed during 1954-1979 and used for handling of general and
container cargo. The marine structures are not in a very good condition.
• Chittagong Container Terminal (CCT): Dedicated 450 m quay wall for
container traffic with STS gantry cranes. The facilities are in a good
condition.
• New mooring Container Terminal (NCT): Recently built 1,000 m long
quay wall (5 berths á 200 m) for container cargo operations. The structure is
in good condition.

9. Containers handled in Chittagong Port
during last five Years (FY)
FY Import
(in TEU)
Export
(In TEU)
Total
(In TEU)
2010-11 729693 739221 1468914
2011-12 675796 667612 1343408
2012-13 743547 725166 1468713
2013-14 812918 812591 1625509
2014-15 940827 926115 1866942

10. Forecasting Container traffic in Chittagong Port
• Chittagong Port has projected
the container traffic to 2.7,
4.4, 5.1 and 5.4 million TEUs
for the year 2020, 2025, 2030
and 2040 respectively.
• Dhaka’s expectation to and
from container traffic may be
1.89, 3.08, 3.57 and 3.78 in
million TEUs in the year 2020,
2025, 2030 and 2040.

11. Existing Situation of ships calling in Chittagong port
• Container ships : The average ship size of the calling Container ship is 1400TEU,
ranging 500TEU to 1600 TEU. After further dredging it is not expected that ship size
will increase to a significant level. Maximum ship size assumed to be 1800TEU.
• Break bulk or General cargo vessels: Handy Size or even smaller bulk carriers of
10,000-15,000 dwt size. Ship with an average size of 12,975 dwt is expected and in
future assumed maximum 15,000 dwt per call.
• Ro-Ro or Vehicle Carriers: At present 32 Ro-Ro and dedicated vehicle carriers are
calling Chittagong Port. Typical capacity of a vehicle carrier like the “Asian Leader” is
calling Chittagong port regularly with 1500 cars, in general only a fraction of her
capacity.
• Dry Bulk ships: An average ship size of dry bulk ship is 35,000 dwt. The average
ship load in 2012 was 34,000 tons and 496 dry bulk carriers called Chittagong Port.
Dry bulk handling consists only of import.
• Tankers: Average tanker size calling at Chittagong Port is 25,000 dwt but the edible
oils are delivered in charge of maximum 10,000 tons therefore assumed that average
volume of liquid cargo was 20,000 tons in 2012 and 347 total.

12. Vessels Call Potentials at Chittagong port up to 2033
Number of vessels 2012 2018 2023 2028 2033
Container ships 845 1154 1502 1629 1605
Dry bulk carrier 496 661 834 1017 1202
Tanker 347 402 397 387 367
Break-bulk/
General Cargo 356 332 330 335 348
Ro/Ro or Vehicle
Carrier 32 32 38 48 62
Total 2076 2581 3101 3416 3584

13. CPA’s plan to cope with a large volume of container
• Develop GCB (10-13 No berth) area into a full independent container terminal
by 2020 ; in capacity to handle 770,000TEU per annum and licensed to a
private operator.
• Planning to build a new Bay Container Terminal (BCT) to meet the volumes
with a capacity of 2.8 million TEUs.
• Bay Terminal located at the seaside approx. 8-10 miles north of the estuary.
• Bay Container Terminal could handle larger vessels of the panamax and
post-panamax type i.e. up to 5000TEU.
• Due to its location the Bay Container Terminal would technically be more
feasible than the other sites that's why considered as favorite alternatives of
KCT.

14. Location of proposed Bay Container Terminal

15. Development of Rail based ICD
• Established in 1987
• Distance from Chittagong port: 320 KM
Railway path;
• Full pledged Customs house has been
established in Kamalapur, Dhaka in 2011
• Two MG and One DG rail track
• Length of rail tracks : 1097m
• Yard area : 1,36,954 sq. meter
• Static capacity : 4067 TEU
• CFS : 8,182 sq. meter
• Yearly handling capacity: 90,000TEU
• Handled 66,847 TEUs in 2014-2015 FY
• A feasibility study for construction of a
new ICD near Dhirassram Railway
Station (Dhaka) was conducted by CPA
in 2007 financed by the World Bank.
• Study suggested to implement first
phase with a capacity of 354,000 TEUs
with a gradual expansion up to
860,000TEUs.
• The study also suggested the necessity
of converting existing Chittagong Port
Railway Yard (CGPY) into an off-dock
terminal.
• According to BR the construction of
Dhirassram ICD would be important
because of the current physical limitation
of Dhaka ICD would then be about
450,000TEUs.

16. Inland Waterways in Bangladesh
• The waterway in
Bangladesh is classified
into four hierarchical
classes.
• The classification is
made principally
according to the Least
Available Draft (LAD).
• The waterways Class I
and II are major
transport corridors
where LAD of 2.1m to
3.6m.
IWTIWT
ClassificationClassification
LengthLength
(km)(km)
DepthDepth
(m)(m)
Class-IClass-I 683683 3.66-3.96
Class-IIClass-II 10001000 2.1-2.44
Class-IIIClass-III 18851885 1.52-1.83
Class-IVClass-IV 24002400 Less than
1.52
Source: Department of Hydrography BIWTA

17. Pangaon Inland Container Terminal
• To reduce the container vehicles’ share on
the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway,
Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) and
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport
Authority (BIWTA) jointly constructed
Pangaon Inland Container Terminal on the
bank of Buriganga river near Dhaka.
• Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
Inaugurated on 07 November 2013.
• A full pledged Customs House and a
branch of Sonali Bank Limited established
in Terminal Building.
• The terminal’s yearly handling capacity is
now 116,000 TEUs. The capacity could
gradually be increased up to 160,000TEUs.
• Pangaon ICT at a glance
• Yard : 55000 sq. meter
• Length of Jetty : 180 meter (W26 M)
• Container Capacity: 3500 TEU
• CFS: 5815 sq. meter
• Reefer point : 48 (4X12) plug point
• Equipment: MHC :1, SC:2, FLT: 4, TM:3,
Cargo Cranes: 2
• Power supply: 1250 KVA/1MW (2)
generator, another 2.5MW under
construction.
• Vessel/barge: 3 (120 TEU Capacity)
• Another 3 private vessels are in sea trial
and coming shortly.

18. Development of Mongla Port
Cargo handled in last five years in MT
FY
No. of
ships
called
Import
(MT)
Export
(MT)
Total
(MT)
2010-2011 272 2529853 166418 2696271
2011-2012 234 2482432 137465 2619897
2012-2013 282 2946222 201352 3147574
2013-2014 345 3402402 141547 3543949
2014-2015 416 4429449 100830 4530279
Facilities:
• Container Yard (3) 35754 Sq. meter
• Static Capacity 2180TEUs (Single stack)
• Transit Shed (4), 19,628 Sq. meter &
storage capacity : 7500 MT
• Warehouse (2) : 19,630 Sq. meter &
storage capacity : 15,000 MT.
• Car parking yard (1): Storage capacity:
2000 unit Car
• Open dumps : 300,000 sq. meter

19. Container Handling in last five years in TEU
FY
No of ships
Called
Inboun
d
(TEU)
Outbound
(TEU)
Total
(TEU)
2010-2011 44 13699 13424 27123
2011-2012 35 15460 14585 30045
2012-2013 47 21994 21879 43873
2013-2014 72 21947 21060 43007
2014-2015 67 21036 21101 42137

20. Development of Payra Deep Sea Port
Payra Port is located in the Meghna Estuary at Rabnabad Channel in the
Patuakhali district. It is about 154 NM far from Chittagong port and 125 NM
from Mongla Port. Rabnabad Channel is a naturally suitable place to build a
seaport. Port Limit is demarked which is about 504 square miles and outer
anchorage will be 210 square miles for anchoring the vessel draught 10-20 m.
• Payra Sea Port will have following facilities.
– Jetty area has depth of water 12-25 m where deep draught and bigger size vessel can be
accommodated.
– 11 km long jetty/terminal facilities can be developed.
– 4 km wide channel.
– Plenty of hinterland to develop a seaport with modern infrastructure.
– Planned Navy base and Coast Guard close to the proposed port area will provide
necessary safety and security.
– Protected from natural disaster.
– Located in regional and international shipping friendly position.
– Can be used as a regional transshipment port.

21. Techno-economic feasibility study & future prospect
Techno Economic feasibility study and the main
components of the tasks are:
• Approach Channel Design
• River Bank Protection
• Capital and Maintenance Dredging
• Breakwater
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Economic Viability
• Conceptual Mater Plan
Project Implementation Plan
• Plan I. Commence limited scale port operation by
Dec 2015 through lighter vessel bringing merchant
ship at outer anchorage.
• Plan II. Complete major components of port
infrastructure with 2.5 km terminal facilities
including River Bank Protection, Capital Dredging
and Breakwater by 2018.
• Plan III. Complete remaining Port facilities by 2023
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22. Thank you
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