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.
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