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Komen costs Ctg port Tk 1.61 cr

Dwaipayan Barua, ctg
Cyclone Komen cost Bangladesh's premier seaport in Chittagong aboutTk 1.61 crore in losses, and caused some minor physical damage.
The Chittagong Port Authority, for the first time, has assessed the losses by collecting data from different departments.
However, losses suffered by importers and ship operators were not added to the assessment, port officials said. Port activities were mostly affected onThursday and Friday.
The authorities had taken 21 types of precautionary measures, which included securing equipment away from possibly dangerous areas.
"The cyclone forced port activities to slow down significantly," said Md Jafar Alam, member (administration and planning) of the CPA.
Rains caused by the cyclone disrupted
unloading of goods from larger vessels in the outer anchorage.
Vessel operations and cargo handling at the port jetties were also hampered, as the CPA barred incoming vessels from berthing and using the on-shore cranes to handle containers.
The prolonged disruption of the port activities led to theTk 1.61 crore losses in revenue, Alam said.
Waterlogging created by tidal waves damaged roads stretching about one kilometre into the port’s area, and high winds felled six trees, he added.
Chittagong port handled some 5,424 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit) of import and export containers on Wednesday, the day before Komen became threatening. The figures fell to 3,966 TEUs on Thursday, and just 841 TEUs on Friday, when incessant raised suspended operations.
In the outer anchorage, some 22,198 tonnes of goods were unloaded on Wednesday, but work was completely suspended the next day, and some 3,300 tonnes were offloaded on Friday.
Komen also affected the delivery of goods from the port as just 327 TEUs were
carried out from the port on Friday compared to 3,192 TEUs delivered two days ago.
The situation improved after Saturday, and port activities are now going on in full swing.
"The assessment will help us understand the port's efficiency against natural disasters