2025 container handling by Bangladesh’s Chattogram Port up 4.07% YoY

Despite several operational disruptions like yard congestion last year, container handling by Bangladesh’s Chattogram Port grew by 4.07 per cent year on year (YoY), overall cargo increased by 11.43 per cent YoY and vessel calls rose by 10.5 per cent YoY, according to the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA).

The country’s largest seaport, which handles around 92 per cent of total import and export trade and 98 per cent of containerised cargo, handled 3.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of export, import and empty containers last year. That was a rise of 133,442 TEUs from 3.276 million TEUs a year earlier.

Of the total, about 1.857 million TEUs were import containers and 1.552 million TEUs export containers. Roughly 750,000 TEUs were empty containers, according to domestic media reports.

Despite several operational disruptions, container handling by Bangladesh’s Chattogram Port grew by 4.07 per cent YoY, overall cargo rose by 11.43 per cent YoY and vessel calls rose by 10.5 per cent YoY in 2025.
By Q4 2025, vessel waiting times fell to almost zero, allowing the port to maintain growth.
Container volumes could rise by a million TEUs in five years, a trade body representative noted.

The port managed 138.2 million tonnes of cargo in 2025, up from 124 million tonnes a year earlier—an increase of 14.2 million tonnes. Vessel calls rose to 4,273, compared with 3,867 in 2024.

By the last quarter of 2025, vessel waiting times fell to almost zero, allowing the port to maintain growth.

Container volumes in the country could rise by a million TEUs within the next five years, Khairul Alam Suzan, former director of Bangladesh Shipping Agents Association, said.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)