Ctg Port 58th among 100 busiest ports
Chattogram sea port has advanced six steps in a year in terms of gross annual traffic of containers in 2019, according to Lloyd's List, the world's oldest journal on ports and shipping.
Chattogram sea port has been ranked the 58th busiest container port among the most notable 100 ports across the world.
The most recent 2020 edition of Lloyd's List's "A HUNDRED Ports" has been published recently, tallying up the gross annual container throughput figures of the world's elite port facilities of the last twelve months of 2019.
In line with the Lloyd's List, the port handled a total of 3,088,187 TEUs (twenty equivalent units) of containers in 2019, up from 2,903,996 TEUs in the last year (2018), posting 6.3 percent gross annual growth in container handling.
Such growth helped the port in advancing 6 steps from its previous year's (2018) 64th position while it was ranked 70th in 2017, and 71st, 76th and 87th in 2016, 2015 and 2014 respectively.
The journal stated that Chattogram port's flourishing export trade of ready-made garments continue to drive throughput numbers.
Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) Chairman Rear Admiral SM Abul Kalam Aazad said the country's economic progress is the main cause of such container throughout of the port.
He thanked the federal government and also the port's stakeholders because of their role in smooth procedure of the country's premier sea port.
In line with the Lloyd's List, the year 2019 could be marked as the calm prior to the storm, as the existing year has unfolded as a result of the coronavirus health crisis and global pandemic.
Among the 100 busiest container ports, Chinese port Shanghai clinched the most notable rank with 43.30 million TEUs throughput in 2019, having 3.1 percent year on year growth.
A total of 25 Chinese ports are on the chart, while neighbouring Sri Lankan port of Colombo maintained the same 24th position for the last 2 yrs (2019 and 2018).
Two Indian ports including Jawaharlal Nehru Port secured 33rd position and Mundra 37th in the ranking.
Chattogram Port is 27 steps ahead of Pakistan's Port of Karachi, which secured 85th position.
Chattogram port handles 98 percent of the full total container throughput in the united states, while Mongla handles the others.
