Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Patenga Container Terminal PCT will be Completed Soon



Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) is constructing as part of increasing the capacity of the country's main seaport located in Chattogram. Construction work of this multipurpose project with flyover, container and dolphin jetty, backup yard is ongoing full swing.

Piling work to build this terminal is giving the highest priority. China has already done test piling by the pole driving ship brought from China. Thousand numbers of piles having 9 meter diameter and of 30-38 meters long is building in Malaysia. These piles are bringing from Malaysia in 6 trips. Already two hundred piles shipments have been done. Within July, the rest piles will reach at the project site.

Overall 18 percent of the whole project work has been completed. 29 percent of the piling work was completed. 85 percent of Ground Improvement work and 60 percent of the 420 meter long flyover construction work have been done.




According to the plan, comprehensive work is going on every day. Beside construction work of the jetties, road transfers, border wall work etc the movement of Red Crescent, Marine Fisheries, Custom F Division is ongoing.

According to the sources, the PCT is being built to handle 445,000 TEU's Container annually. Total numbers of 7 different contractors under the Bangladesh Army are working on this site. The army has already been paid an advance of BD Taka 650 crore for the project of total Taka 1,868 crore 28 lac.

In the Patenga Container Terminal which will have 600 meter long jetty, three container vessel ships of 190 meters long and 10.5 meter draught (bottom of the vessel) will be able to arrive. In the 220 meter long dolphin jetty one oil lavender vessel will be able to arrive. Under this project, the backup yard area will be of total 16 acres with 4,500 TEU's container capacity.

In the PCT:
  • There will be 1,12,000 square meter of RCC pavement (internal yard and road)
  • 2,128 square meter Container freight station (CFS) shade
  • 6 meter height 1,750 meters custom bonded wall
  • 5,580 square feet port office building
  • 1,200 Square meter mechanical and repair factory
  • 420 meter long flyover for airport traffic
  • Four lanes road of 0.75 kilometer and six lanes road of 1 kilometer


Equipment's in PCT:
  • There will be 4 gantry cranes (QGC)
  • 8 rubber tiered gantry (RTG)
  • 4 straddle carrier
  • 4 Rich stackers
  • 1 rail mounted gantry crane (RMG)
  • 4 low-mast fork lift
  • 2 fire trucks and 1 fire car
  • There will be three security patrol cars, one ambulance, two tugboats of 50 tons, two pilot boats and two fast-speed boats



The foundation work of the PTC was laid on 8 September, 2017 and hope the construction work will be completed by this year within December.


Related:

No comments:

Post a Comment