Nepal first to use Ctg port

[integra]

In a major step towards regional connectivity, Bangladesh allowed transit of goods to Nepal from yesterday.

Two Indian wagon trains left the Rohanpur Railway Station here for Nepal with 2,389 metric tonnes of diammonium phosphate (DAP) imported from Morocco by Agriculture Import Corporation Limited of Nepal, said officials.

The trains will enter Raxul-Birganj of Nepal via Singabad in Malda district of India.

This is for the first time Bangladesh allowed Nepal to use the Chittagong port, river route and railway facility in line with a decision taken by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh last year, they added.

According to the Joint Communiqué issued during Hasina's visit to India in January last year, Bangladesh agreed to give Nepal and Bhutan access to Chittagong and Mongla ports.

The two leaders also agreed to establish a broad gauge railway link between Rohanpur and Singabad for transit to Nepal. Besides, they also agreed allowing trucks from Bhutan and Nepal to enter about 200 metres into Bangladesh through Indian territories.

The imported DAP reached Chittagong port on May 17. Cargo boats carried it to Nowapara Railway Station in Jessore.

Bangladesh Railway brought forty-two Indian wagons up to Jessore and loaded the fertiliser in four days from July 10.

One train with 995.5 MT of fertiliser in 18 wagons and the other with 1,393 MT in 24 wagons returned to Rohanpur on Wednesday night and finally left for Nepal at 8:00am and 3:00pm respectively yesterday.

One lakh MT of DAP would be carried to Nepal through this route, Mohammad Shahidullah, station master of Rohanpur Railway Station, told The Daily Star.

Bangladesh and India have already permitted transit of 50,000 MT of DAP to Nepal, he noted.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on June 22 told parliament that the process of allowing Nepal and Bhutan to use Chittagong and Mongla ports to transport their goods to a third country through Bangladesh is close to the final stage.

 

[bd_4_ever]

Good, hope this brings prosperity to the neighboring nations.

How much will BD be making from the transits again?


Cheers!!!

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Good thing.

I am sure there will be good concession by Bangaldesh to make the trip economically viable for Nepal, given the distance.

 

[TopCat]

Good thing.

I am sure there will be good concession by Bangaldesh to make the trip economically viable for Nepal, given the distance.

Why Nepal interested in Cht port instead of Calcutta? Any Idea?

 

[eastwatch]

Why Nepal interested in Cht port instead of Calcutta? Any Idea?

I have talked with Nepalese citizens about their feeling towards India. They just hate india and the attitude of Indians. They say, because of the attitude of common Indians, young medical, engineering and BBA students prefer to go to Bangladesh to study instead of going to India.

Since the beginning of Brtitish time, Calcutta Babus (read Hindus) made themselves as the faithful servants of the British. These servitude gained them an upper hand over the rest of the population of British India.

When British left, these Babus found Subjects no more in India. But, the Calcutta Port Babus found the Nepalese and Bhutanese as their newest Subjects. These Babus use all kinds of harassments with the businessmen citizens of these two land-locked countries. Finally, the GoB has cut off the shackles of servitude of the citizens of these two countries. They are free now.

 

[LaBong]

^You should write science fiction or something!

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

^^^ I also talked to some Nepalese and they think Bangladeshis are from India.

lolz

maybe he hates India after spending some time with you perhaps?

 

[INDIAISM]

I have talked with Nepalese citizens about their feeling towards India. They just hate india and the attitude of Indians. They say, because of the attitude of common Indians, young medical, engineering and BBA students prefer to go to Bangladesh to study instead of going to India.

Since the beginning of Brtitish time, Calcutta Babus (read Hindus) made themselves as the faithful servants of the British. These servitude gained them an upper hand over the rest of the population of British India.

When British left, these Babus found Subjects no more in India. But, the Calcutta Port Babus found the Nepalese and Bhutanese as their newest Subjects. These Babus use all kinds of harassments with the businessmen citizens of these two land-locked countries. Finally, the GoB has cut off the shackles of servitude of the citizens of these two countries. They are free now.

hahaha here he goes again....ya they hate Indians and that's why they take pride in serving Indian Army....i hope Gorkha regiment rings the bell{their are alot of nepali citizens in that regiment}

 

[kobiraaz]

nepalese people think we are part of india?? You think they are that idiot?? Really???

 

[eastwatch]

^You should write science fiction or something!

I am not a writer. So, what I have written about the Babu group is not a fiction. Better, you check the reality. Do not you think your attitudes with your neighbours are abusive? you can do it and also get away with it only because you have a bigger country. Bangladesh believes in equality for all the countries and speaks for the landlocked ones.

It is not a bad politics when BD successfully convinces India to allow transit for Nepal and Bhutan. People of these two countries understand our feeling towards them. This is the reason why Bhutan is seeking the use of our airports in the north to accomodate their international flights?

Seems, Indian Babus' foreign policy adopted in your FM is always failing.

 

[eastwatch]

^^^ I also talked to some Nepalese and they think Bangladeshis are from India.

lolz

maybe he hates India after spending some time with you perhaps?

Ha, ha, ha, ha------------------------. You must be a good joker of this Century. Live with it.

 

[TopCat]

Nepalese/Bhtutanese hate India thats true. But only hate not going to opt any businessman to choose Chtg and loose money. There must be something whic Calcutta port is unable to provide. I was just wondering.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

In a major step towards regional connectivity, Bangladesh allowed transit of goods to Nepal from yesterday.

Two Indian wagon trains left the Rohanpur Railway Station here for Nepal with 2,389 metric tonnes of diammonium phosphate (DAP) imported from Morocco by Agriculture Import Corporation Limited of Nepal, said officials.

The trains will enter Raxul-Birganj of Nepal via Singabad in Malda district of India.

This is for the first time Bangladesh allowed Nepal to use the Chittagong port, river route and railway facility in line with a decision taken by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh last year, they added.

According to the Joint Communiqué issued during Hasina's visit to India in January last year, Bangladesh agreed to give Nepal and Bhutan access to Chittagong and Mongla ports.

The two leaders also agreed to establish a broad gauge railway link between Rohanpur and Singabad for transit to Nepal. Besides, they also agreed allowing trucks from Bhutan and Nepal to enter about 200 metres into Bangladesh through Indian territories.

The imported DAP reached Chittagong port on May 17. Cargo boats carried it to Nowapara Railway Station in Jessore.

Bangladesh Railway brought forty-two Indian wagons up to Jessore and loaded the fertiliser in four days from July 10.

One train with 995.5 MT of fertiliser in 18 wagons and the other with 1,393 MT in 24 wagons returned to Rohanpur on Wednesday night and finally left for Nepal at 8:00am and 3:00pm respectively yesterday.

One lakh MT of DAP would be carried to Nepal through this route, Mohammad Shahidullah, station master of Rohanpur Railway Station, told The Daily Star.

Bangladesh and India have already permitted transit of 50,000 MT of DAP to Nepal, he noted.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on June 22 told parliament that the process of allowing Nepal and Bhutan to use Chittagong and Mongla ports to transport their goods to a third country through Bangladesh is close to the final stage.

The news is ok since it might help some-body or the other to up trade. So SAARC is working out all right.

 

[Bhairava]

Nepalese/Bhtutanese hate India thats true. But only hate not going to opt any businessman to choose Chtg and loose money. There must be something whic Calcutta port is unable to provide. I was just wondering.

Now Bhutanese also ?

How many of you guys have even interacted with Bhutanese or gone to Bhutan ?

I'm not mentioning Nepal because except the 1% pests called Maoists there is nothing different from Nepalis or Indians and hate is unknown among them.

p.s.: - Do you guys know that the Bhutanese and Nepalese actually don't get along very well ?

 

[Avisheik]

Why Nepal interested in Cht port instead of Calcutta? Any Idea?

I think they are still using the calcutta port, together with cht port. Maybe they are following the old saying "Dont put all your eggs in the same basket"