Container Services

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Container Services

During the year 2008-09, a total of 73471 number of containers were handled at Chittagong Port and Dhaka ICD. A total of 5613442 tonnes of different commodities were transported in those containers, which contributed a total of Tk. 576146446 to the Railway revenue. Year-wise position is indicated below:-

	Chittagong Port		Dhaka ICD to		Total	Chittagong	Dhaka	Total	Earnings
	to Dhaka ICD		Chittagong Port		All	Port	ICD	All	(Tk. in
						to Dhaka	to		thousands)
						ICD	Chittagong
							Port
	Loaded Empty Loaded Empty					(Tonnes)	(Tonnes)	(Tonnes)


1995-96	10,726	2,285	7,724	4,701	25,436	104,850	59,227	164,077	13,15,38
1996-97	11,994	2,940	7,981	7,038	29,953	120,834	71,053	191,887	14,51,50
1997-98	14,611	2,380	9,272	7,380	33,643	150,356	85,781	236,137	16,70,58
1998-99	17,750	1,857	11,009	7,810	38,426	205,751	97,800	303,551	20,72,62
1999-00	21,899	1,156	12,017	10,549	45,621	239,528	115,635	355,163	26,46,83
2000-01	24,796	1,725	13,628	12,588	52,737	267,769	119,878	387,647	29,40,71
2001-02	26,925	2,198	12,940	16,238	58,301	295,918	123,744	419,662	32,61,99
2002-03	28,218	2,095	13,179	17,534	61,026	315,011	132,677	447,688	32,00,58
2003-04	33,254	2,186	15,879	18,928	70,247	370,704	171,259	541,963	37,44,42
2004-05	34,690	1,295	14,191	21,505	71,981	361,912	167,948	529,860	39,32,81
2005-06	40,219	1,112	13,670	26,269	81,270	404,680	173,042	577,722	44,04,79
2006-07	36,558	776	15,325	23,913	76,572	405,328	168,575	573,903	52,34,94
2007-08	38267	2076	18085	23,502	81930	442586	209244	651830	598554

2008-09	35840	982	19560	17449	73471	399988	213454	613442	576146

Note : Container service was indroduced in 1986-87 and is being operated between chittagong port and Dhaka Inland Container Depot (ICD)