Container handling at Bangladesh's Chattogram port falls in Jul YoY

06 Aug '23

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Container handling of both import and export goods at Bangladesh's Chattogram port fell in July year on year due to the war between Russia and Ukraine and the dollar crisis.
However, the amount of import container handling at the port increased in July over the June figure, while the amount of export container handling declined month on month.

Bangladesh’s Chattogram port handled 59,592 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) containers of export goods in July—down by 10,532 TEUs from 70,124 TEUs handled by the port in the same month last year.

The month also saw the port handling 1,13,385 TEUs of import containers—down by 212 TEUs from 1,13,597 TEUs in the same month last year.

The amount of empty import container handling in July this year was 6,668 TEUs, and the empty export container was 59,352 TEUs, Bangladesh media outlets reported.

However, the amount of import container handling at the port increased by 9,630 TEUs in July month on month (MoM), while the amount of export container handling decreased by 15,799 TEUs MoM.

In June, 103,755 TEUs of containers of import cargo and 75,391 TEUs of containers of export cargo were handled at the port. The amount of empty import containers handling was 4,660 TEUs and empty export containers 49,711 TEUs during that month.

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