In a first, Bangladesh’s Mongla Port — once a sleepy seaport Mongla has turned into a busy hub of export and import business over the past 13 years thanks to a number of development projects undertaken by the Government — has recently witnessed a container ship with an 8-metre draught (the first of its size) mooring the port’s jetty No. 5 with 289 containers, carrying goods weighing 7,241 metric tonnes.
“All ships that anchored earlier did not have a draught of more than 7 metres. MV Tokyo is the first ship of its size to anchor at Mongla Port,” meanwhile, reportedly, claimed Syed Zahid Hossain, the local shipping agent of MCC Tokyo, the 186-metre long ship that arrived from China’s Shanghai, while underlining the same has been made possible due to dredging.
The docking of the ship was a part of the trial run, further added reports while underlining MV Tokyo will leave the port after reloading goods.
