The Banglabandha land port in Rangpur’s Panchagarh district collected a record-high amount of revenue in fiscal 2020-21.

The construction of the Bay Terminal, a long-awaited project of the Chittagong port, is gaining momentum after slowing down due to the coronavirus pandemic as the government looks to complete it by 2024.

Another privately built jetty has come to the aid of the Chattogram port as it allowed the country’s largest seaport to use the facility to berth bulk vessels carrying heavy items.

Trade through the Banglabandha land port resumed on Saturday after remaining suspended for 12 days marking Eid-ul-Azha.   

A National Board of Revenue’s (NBR’s) temporary permission to shift import-laden containers from the Chattogram port to private inland container depots (ICDs) as a decongestion effort seems to have borne no fruit.

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) yesterday urged the government to allow them to reopen all factories, including export-oriented industries, citing that export might suffer severely for the continued restriction.

A Colombo-bound vessel carrying export containers has been kept impounded at the Chattogram port’s outer anchorage for the last eight days by Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) following a High Court order.

Import containers are piling up at an alarming rate at Chattogram port due to the worst delivery during the Eid holidays and the subsequent poor release of goods for the fresh lockdown, which could cause congestion anew.

A cargo vessel yesterday became the first to berth at the second jetty being constructed for unloading coal for the under-construction coal-based power plant at Matarbari in Moheskhali upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

China’s exports grew much faster than expected in June, as solid global demand led by easing lockdown measures and vaccination drives worldwide eclipsed virus outbreaks and port delays.

MRDI has launched a project “Exploring Young Mind: News Literacy and Ethics in Child Reporting” in partnership with the National Human Rights Commission

Parents, guardians and community members need to be more aware about their children and also engage themselves in issues that make girls vulnerable, said speakers yesterday at an event.

Customs intelligence officials at Chittagong Port yesterday seized 18 containers of imported limestone and calcium

Customs Intelligence officials seized 15 containers of art paper at Chittagong Port yesterday on charge of importing

Police arrested two youths in Nesarabad upazila of the district on Tuesday on charge of torturing a college student.

Without serving any notice, the local administration allegedly cut down around 40 trees owned by a teacher at village Digarkanda to

Customs intelligence officials yesterday stopped the delivery of two import consignments at the Chittagong Port for which fake documents were submitted.

An alleged criminal is killed in a “gunfight” between his accomplices and the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Badda area of Dhaka in the wee hours today.

International Crimes Tribunal-1 frames seven specific charges against five suspected Razakars for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

Jagannath University authorities suspend a teacher of political science for helping his relative during admission test held on October 9.