Chattogram, March 3 -- Amid Ramadan, allegations have surfaced against certain traders for hoarding imported goods at Chittagong Port, allegedly to engineer an artificial crisis and inflate market prices.

According to port officials, importers are using port yards as storage facilities by delaying goods release, creating an artificial crisis, while around 40,000 Full Container Load (FCL) containers remain in the port yard and off-docks.

The Chittagong Port Authority recently announced that if these goods-laden containers are not cleared by March 9, a fourfold charge will be imposed.

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At present, they said, among the 40,089 containers located in various yards at ...