Dhaka, June 16 -- With 15 days remaining in the 2024-25 fiscal year, container handling at Chattogram Port has surpassed the total volume handled in the previous year, overcoming the dollar crisis, LC complications, and floods.

In FY25, a total of over 3.17 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of import and export containers have been handled at Bangladesh's main seaport.

In comparison, the total container handling in FY24 stood at over 3.16 million TEUs. Precisely speaking, that is 3,089 more containers handled this fiscal year, with two weeks to spare.

In FY23, the port handled 3 million TEUs.

A port official told bdnews24.com that despite disruptions caused by the July Uprising, prolonged floods, extended Eid holidays, a cust...