ASIA GREENPORT

First Inland Port for Bangladesh

14 years ago

Bangladesh’s Rupayan Port and Logistics Services and the UK-based Port Evolution Management are going to develop the country’s first private inland container terminal.

Bangladesh is going to have its first inland container terminal

Bangladesh ‘s first inland port will be established as a joint venture between the UK-based Port Evolution Management and local realtor Rupayan Port & Logistics Services to operate a 300,000-TEU container capacity terminal in Nareayanganj serving Dhaka.

The terminal will be equipped with an online container tracking system, customs and other regulatory agencies, agricultural inspection and quarantine areas. The facility will work primarily as a supply chain inland feeder hub for Chittagong and Mongla, serving Dhaka-based importers and exporters. The Dhaka-Chittagong corridor contains some 32 per cent of Bangladesh’s population and generates 50 per cent of the country’s GDP and 85 per cent of its foreign trade.

The terminal will start operations early next year as the quay wall piling has already been started by Rupayan.