CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh -- The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) will buy 44 pieces of container handling equipment from the USA, Finland and Italy, in the next nine months, the Daily Star reports.
The CPA will spend more than US$10 million for 13 straddle carriers, 22 terminal tractors and nine high-capacity container stackers. The CPA's suppliers have not been named.
The first order is part of a development project which will see more than 140 machines purchased, in an attempt to boost the port.
The CPA said the port last year handled more than 400,000 containers.
Two multi-purpose berths were commissioned in 1992 for container handling. But the additional container handling equipment was not procured due to a "bureaucratic tangle".
Another container terminal is likely to be built at New Mooring, the newspaper said.
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