Dhaka, March 15 -- The MV Mariam ship carrying 26,250 tons of Atap rice from Pakistan has arrived at Chittagong port, Bangladesh Food Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

The Daily Star reported that this is the last phase of 50,000 tonnes of rice purchased from Pakistan under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Directorate of Food, Bangladesh, and the Trading Corporation of Pakistan on January 31.

MV Mariam arrived at the outer anchorage of Chittagong port on March 11 while it berthed at a port jetty on Friday, the report said.

It said that after the quality test of the sample collected from the ship, rice unloading started on Friday evening.

Bangladesh received 26,250 tonnes of atap rice as the first shipment...