Priority berthing for new feeder provider will avoid Chittagong congestion

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A good Bangladeshi container feeder service can make its debut voyage from Chittagong port on 22 June, connecting to Singapore and Port Klang, beginning another avenue for shippers to feeder cargo to mainline vessels.

The Bangladesh Express Assistance operates with two 1,500 teu vessels and can depart Chittagong every Monday.

In the lack of a deepsea port, ferrying goods to and from Bangladesh would depend on low-draught feeder vessels. Presently, some 84 container vessels from 22 overseas carriers approach cargo for the $90bn export-import trade to and from Colombo, Singapore and Port Klang.

HR Lines’ new feeder program, operated by HR Lines, is definitely the only flag-carrier container feeder service owned by an area private sector conglomerate, using sister ships Sarera and Sahare, that used to use Pacific International Lines’ Singapore-Chittagong services.

In Chittagong, the previous locally owned feeder support, operated by HRC Delivery, stopped sailing in 2010 2010, leaving the business to foreign companies.

The Sahare has been acquired from PIL, which in the last month or two has been forced to market owned-vessels, return chartered ships and seek the aid of the Singapore government to repair its battered balance sheet. It really is nowadays authorized in Bangladesh, and all vessels markings and classification and phone signs have all been changed consequently.

The vessels will love priority berthing at Chittagong and so are entitled to carry up to 50% export-import cargo beneath the Bangladesh Flag Vessel (Coverage) Act, 2019.

HR Lines director Hamdan Hossain Chowdhury told The Loadstar that as being Bangladeshi-flagged vessels, the priority berthing meant zero berthing delays and reliable mother vessel connections in Singapore and Port Klang.

“Hence schedule integrity makes this service reduced one,” he added.

Fellow director Raimah Chowdhury said that, as a flag-carrier employing Bangladeshi crew, the company would support save the country huge amount of money in foreign exchange.

She said: “We expect healthy loadings on all our voyages, south and northbound. Our ambition can be to grow our fleet and network soon.”

Shippers experience welcomed the new feeder service seeing that its priority berthing can help them get containers delivered a lot of earlier, even while other vessels encounter congestion found in Chittagong port.

Sahed Hossain, an apparel exporter, said: “That’s very good news for us. The fixed day program will ensure timely achieving of our cargo to capture the mother vessel.”

Seeing as Bangladesh’s premier gateway, Chittagong, handled 3.08m teu last year.
Source: https://theloadstar.com

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