A small sized container vessel, MV Songa Cheetah, left the Chattogram port for Italy’s Port of Ravenna yesterday afternoon with 952 TEUs of export-laden containers, marking the first round trip in container shipping service between Bangladesh and Europe.
Container ship the Songa Cheetah reached the Chittagong Port on Saturday and is set to leave for Italy's Porto di Ravenna (The Port of Ravenna) on Monday on the first direct commercial freight trip from Bangladesh to Europe. A harbour pilot from the Chittagong Port moored the vessel at the Jetty no 4 in the New-mooring Container Terminal (NCT) at 1:15pm Saturday, after its
A direct waterborne service has been introduced between the Chattogram port and an Italian port, paving the way for opening up prospects for faster and cheaper direct container shipping from Bangladesh to Europe.