The ships were visiting Dhubri to import stones and boulders back to their nation and have been stranded for the past eleven days at the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), Dhubri Ship Port.
The ships, which have a capacity of carrying 300 to 400 metric tons of boulders each, arrived at Dhubri on October 31. However, they could not be able to load the boulders and return to Bangladesh as the water level in the Brahmaputra river dropped below the minimum requirement for navigation.
It is now unexplained as to why the department’s officials were unaware of the Brahmaputra river’s water level or why the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) permitted ships arriving from Bangladesh even after the river’s waters almost dried up.
The ships are currently anchored at the Dhubri Ship Port, where they have to pay a daily fee of Rs 1500 per ship as a berthing charge. The ship owners are facing a huge loss in this regard.
