Dhaka, March 27 -- Advisory Council Committee on Government Purchase (ACCGP) on Thursday approved 7 procurement proposals, including the import of two cargoes of LNG from the UK and Singapore.

Finance Advisor Dr Salehuddin Ahmed presided over the meeting.

As per the approved proposals, the state-owned Petrobangla will import the two cargoes (15th and 16th of the current year), each 33.66 lakh MT of LNG from the international spot market for next April.

Out of these, the 15th cargo will be supplied by the Singapore-based company Ganbar Singapore Pte Limited' at a cost of Tk 675.28 crore with per MMBTU at $14.08. One dollar is worth Tk 121 at current exchange rate.

The second (16th) cargo will be supplied by the UK-based company TotalEn...