China Harbour Engineering Company and China State Construction
Engineering Corporation jointly signed an agreement with Bangladesh government for
construction of the Payra seaport costing USD 510 million.
According the
agreement, China Harbour Engineering Company would construct the core port
infrastructure which would cost USD 150 million while the riparian area
fortifying work would be done by China
State Construction Engineering at USD 300 million. This company would also other
facilities including health and housing by spending USD 60 million. If this
government-to-government agreement is completed and all infrastructures
development is constructed then the GDP of the country would increase by 1
percentage point.
This third seaport in the country and it would cost the government
about USD16 billion. Due to low navigability at the Karnaphuli River and
limited facilities at Chittagong port, large vessels, carrying petroleum
products, are forced to anchor at deep sea. Later small ships unload them. This
system takes a 100,000 tonnage tanker 11 days to unload. So this system will
not be useful for Bangladesh to import more crude oil to cope with the fast
growing energy demands. Unloading time would be reduced after the pipeline is
installed.
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