Port News

With three terminals already under foreign operators, the government is weighing who should run the Chittagong Container Terminal once the current contract ends.

The concession covers the port's largest container terminal, which handles over 40% of Chattogram's container traffic. The port authority keeps ownership.

Two ship-to-shore cranes, two RTG cranes and a mobile harbour crane arrived on the mother vessel Fan Zhou-6, bringing Payra's 650-metre berth to full capacity.

The concessional Exim Bank of China loan carries 2% interest and a 20-year repayment period, and will fund two container terminals and new yards at Mongla.

Chattogram handled a record 3.4 million TEU in 2025 and still carries almost all of Bangladesh's container trade. We examine the four-port strategy, the new terminals and the deep-sea port at Matarbari, and the bottlenecks that remain.

In 2022 at least seven direct routes launched from Chattogram as freight soared; by late 2023 most had stopped. What the record shows and what bigger terminals might change.

An average 41% increase took effect in October 2025, followed by shipping-line surcharges. What changed, who pays, and what the port earned in 2025.

Chittagong Port Authority keeps ownership of the terminal while the Dubai-based operator takes over operations, maintenance and upgrades. Workers’ groups remain opposed.