Cargo ship with 52,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat docks at Ctg port

A Liberian cargo ship with 52,500 tonnes of wheat from Ukraine has docked at Chattogram port for the first time since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Abdul Quader, food controller (storage and movement) of Chattogram division said that Magnum Fortune arrived at the outer anchorage of the port on Wednesday evening.

The cargo ship will move to the silo jetty for releasing the food grain after the testing of samples, he added.

The government bought the wheat under its government-to-government (G2G) agreements with Russia and Ukraine after India turned down Bangladesh’s request for wheat import. Earlier, as part of the agreements, Bangladesh already received more than one lakh tonnes of wheat from Russia in two shipments.