Vessel carrying 29,000 MT rice from Vietnam arrives at Ctg port
The vessel, MV OBE Dinares . Photo: Collected
A cargo vessel arrived at Chattogram Port from Vietnam carrying 29,000 tonnes of rice on Saturday (22 March).
The vessel, MV OBE Dinares with rice brought under the G2G agreement signed on 3 February, anchored at the port, said a food Ministry press release.
The testing of samples of rice stored on the ship has already been completed and the process of unloading the rice will begin soon, it added.
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An agreement was signed to import a total of 1 lakh metric tonnes of rice from Vietnam on a G2G basis.
Of this, a total of 30,300 metric tonnes of rice in two shipments have already arrived in the country.
