CHITTAGONG: The new mooring container terminal NMCT) should be made fully operational soon to increase the port’s efficiency and capacity, Chittagong port stakeholders and users demanded at the ninth meeting of Chittagong port advisory committee at the Chittagong Port Training Institute in Chittagong here the other day.
Every previous meeting of the committee set a time frame by which the terminal was supposed to make operational; but nothing happened so far, said Nasir Uddin Chowdhury, former first vice president of BGMEA.
A committee has been formed to resolve the issue soon, said Shahjahan Khan, shipping minister and convener of the committee. ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, president of Awami League Chittagong city unit, and Mahbubul Alam, president of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry, were also present.
