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Don't allow handover of New Mooring Container Terminal to foreign companies: Jamaat

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UNB
20 April, 2025, 06:20 pm
Last modified: 20 April, 2025, 06:46 pm

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Don't allow handover of New Mooring Container Terminal to foreign companies: Jamaat

Party claims the move is a repetition of the "conspiracy" that saw the Patenga Container Terminal handed over to a foreign firm

UNB
20 April, 2025, 06:20 pm
Last modified: 20 April, 2025, 06:46 pm
Logo of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. Photo: Collected
Logo of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. Photo: Collected

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has urged the government not to allow the authorities concerned to hand over the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) at the Chattogram Port to any foreign company.

The  NCT should operate under the port authority's own management, Jamaat's Chattogram Metropolitan unit Ameer Shahjahan Chowdhury made the demands while speaking at a press conference held at Chattogram Press Club on Sunday.

"The Chattogram port is the driving force of the national economy. It handles 92% of the country's import and export activities. NCT is currently the top revenue-generating terminal of the port. Handing over such a self-sufficient terminal to foreign hands would be a direct blow to the national economy."

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When briefing, the Jamaat leader said the NCT built at a cost of around Tk2,000 crore earned Tk1,367 crore in revenue income in the last fiscal year.

It handles 55% of the port's total cargo and the livelihoods of around 5,000 workers and staff depends on this terminal.

Jamaat also alleged that former economic adviser to the Sheikh Hasina-led government Salman F Rahman, played an active role in the move to transfer NCT operations to foreign companies, prioritising the financial interests of the Sheikh family over national interest.

He also claimed that this move is a repetition of the "conspiracy" that saw the Patenga Container Terminal handed over to a foreign firm, despite NCT being a profitable, technologically advanced and efficient terminal that can be operated without any new investment.

Clarifying their opinion, the Jamaat leader said that they are not against foreign investment, but such investment should be directed towards new projects and greenfield developments—such as economic zones and the Bay Terminal area.

Principal Nurul Amin, secretary of the city unit Jamaat-e-Islami, along with several other leaders, were present at the press conference.

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