Chittagong Port is the principal seaport in Bangladesh that has contributed to the national economy with the opportunity to be a world-class regional port in South Asia. Cooperation among the three national ports Chittagong, Mongla and Payra is essential to do maritime logistics business in the region after serving the nation proudly. Here, Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has the opportunity to help others in the process of port development for increasing efficiency and productivity by providing financial and technical assistance because of its financial and technical capabilities as a pioneer seaport in the port world. This paper examines the role of CPA to bolster and develop the underutilized Mongla Port and newly established Payra Port, where qualitative research methodology is applied to explore the ways, by which CPA can assist, link and integrate with others effectively, especially in developing the port infrastructure and inland transport networks. In addition, the research found the prospectus of Mongla and Payra to supply port services to the neighbors India, Nepal, and Bhutan as well as serve the South-West part of China with the aim of increasing regional connectivity and promoting international trade in those basically landlocked areas and countries of Asia.
In the last two decades, the supply and demand of fuel in Bangladesh increased enormously because of her economic growth. Likewise, energy and power require helping the industry and basic supplies to the citizens. Recent development of electric power industry, is essential to arrange the necessary facilities at seaport and its further transportation to the consignee premises by applying JIT (just-in-time) approach inevitably. Driven in particular, innovation is required in the prime ports Chittagong and Mongla, what's more, in newly established Payra port. In addition, regional demand especially from Nepal, Bhutan and Seven Sisters of India for importing fuel through Bangladeshi seaports or pertaining intermodal freight transportation of containerized fuel or tanktainer that cloaked up the derived demand of increasing seaport facilitates in Bangladesh. Another factor that will influence the importing and handling of fuel is the environmental compliance and stringent environmental regulations enacted by IMO (International Maritime Organization), hereby, necessary steps to be taken by port authority or government accordingly. Emerging opportunities, in addition to traditional fuel management at port, coal, LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) and LNG (liquefied natural gas) are the new products for Bangladesh and its neighbors as growing demand of receiving in Bangladeshi ports in a big volume progressively. This paper aims to explore the role of port authorities in the process of developing port and intermodal infrastructure and others to mitigate the uprising demand of fuel handling in port protected area and quick transfer of fuel to the final destination.
Among the seaports in the Bay of Bengal, Chittagong port is in a lucrative position to cover the maximum spatial transportation in Asia. Probably, China-proposed Maritime Silk Road (MSR) under the banner of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) had overlooked Chittagong port as maritime load centre in the South Asian region due to geopolitical issue. A recent performance of Chittagong port in terms of container throughput and considering the hinterland potentiality by MSR, Chittagong port is visualized load centre or connector in the region attractively. The intermodal freight transportation system brought the new dimension in the port regionalization. Driven in particular, Chittagong port’s geographical position and performance are two important indicators in serving through the intermodal system to the region timely and economically. The main objective of port development in Bangladesh is to act as maritime load centre of MSR and offer port services not only for Bangladesh but also to provide maritime transport facilities as well as seaport access to the landlocked countries Nepal and Bhutan, naturally locked part of India, southwest part of China and neighbouring country Myanmar for regional development. In addition to the literature review, this research used a qualitative research method with the combination of primary and secondary data collected from the field. Moreover, one network model is designed on how Chittagong port will provide the hinterland services to the region and implement the dictum of MSR and BRI. Overall, this paper aims to investigate the potentiality of Chittagong port to serve as a regional maritime load centre of MSR for developing an integrated intermodal freight transportation system in Asia.
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