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Chittagong port’s January container handling rises 13% - Maritime Gateway

The Chittagong port got off to a flying start in January by handling 13.28-per cent higher containers year on year, driven by a significant rise in the country’s export and import trade. According to port officials, the country’s prime seaport handled a total of 263,614 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers this January, up from 232,709 TEUs in the same month of the previous year. Data shows the port handled 75,234 TEUs of export goo…