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Ctg Port traffic volume falls

By Ctg Correspondent
CHITTAGONG. Dec 22: Traffic volume through Chittagong Port during the past five month* recorded ■ fall hy about nine lakh metric ton* compared to the corresponding period of the last fiscal.
According to official reports. cargoes handled from July through November. 91-92 totalled at 25.97,337 MT while the volume was 34,98,476 MT during the same period of 90-91.
Of the total volume handled during the past five months imports accounted for 22.57,566 MT and exports 3,29,771 MT while during the same period of 90-91 30,54,245 MT of Import goods and 4,44,231 MT of export goods were handled, official reports said.
The number of total vessels called at the Port during the past five months was 385 against 439 vessels in the same period of the last fiscal year.
Director (Traffic) Mohsin Sarkar of Chittagong Port attributed the decline of traffic mainly to less importation. The Chairman of the port Akter Kamal told this correspondent that the cargo handling' dwindied due to calling of less number of foreign vessels since the outbreak of Gulf War. Kamal informed that about 12 ships took berth at Chittagong Port during the past five months as against 25 to 30 ships per day before the war. He hoped that traffic volume would rise from January next . According to the port officials. traffic volume took a down turn also due to the April 29 cyclone that affected the port very badly suspending its operation for quite some time.
Chittagong Port Authority had targetted to handle 75 lakh MT of cargoes in 91 -92.
The major Import cargoes handled by Chittagong Port during the past five months Included food grain, cement, fertilizer, coal, bait, sugar, edible oil, POL while main export cargoes covered jute, jute ■ products, leather goods, tea, garments frozen goods, fertilizer. neptha.
However, handling of containers went up during the past five months. A tolul of 46.877 containers were handled from July* through November. 91-92 as against 44,961 containers during the same period of the last fiscal.
Mon th wise figures of containers handled in 91 -92 : July -Import containers 4013 and export 4581. August Import containers 4964 and export 5079.
September — import 4716 and export 4362. October -Import 5257 and export 5229, November - import 4444 and export 4232.
In the corresponding five months of. 90 91. Julv—Import 4299 and export 4968, August—import 44'H5 and export 46)4. September—Import 4226 and export 4109, October Import 5008 and export 4616, November—import 4549 and export 4078.