Bangladesh has been a major importer of reconditioned cars and the import of such automotives will now be largely undertaken at the Mongla Port. Recently, A Malaysia-flagged Ro-Ro vessel arrived at Bagerhat’s Mongla port carrying around 800 reconditioned cars of different brands. These cars have been exported from Japan.
The ship ‘MV Malaysia Star’ anchored at Jetty No-7 of the port. Ruhul Amin, manager of Khulna Traders Limited, said the company has started unloading the cars from the ship. The cars were first imported from Japan’s Nagoya, Yokohama and Osaka ports and were stored in Singapore. The ship left for Bangladesh with 1,180 cars loaded from Singapore port. Out of them, 419 were unloaded at Chattogram port.