Date: 28th Dec, 2011
Honorable Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the Container Terminal Management System (CTMS) and radiation detection system at the Chittagong port on 27th of December 2011. The system would enable online maintenance of all operational activities at the country's premier port. These include loading and unloading of containers from ships, shifting of container in the yard, stacking, tracking, delivery and gate control. Container handling capacity of the port will double with the new system introduced that is sure to help ease the complete container handling process and make the stakeholders anxiety-free while tracing out their containers at the yard. With the implementation of the CTMS, the operational activities of the import and export containers and payment of charges and dues will come under online networking system. More over, under the new system, loading and unloading activities of the container ships at the port, shifting of containers in the yard, stacking, tracking, delivery and gate control will be conducted through online billing.
The implementation of this whole system has jointly done by DataSoft Systems Bangladesh Limited & Singapore Technologies.
Among those present at the inaugural function were shipping minister Shahajan Khan, Datasoft Managing Director Mahboob Zaman, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on shipping ministry Nur-e-Alam Chowdhury Liton, shipping secretary Abdul Mannan Hawlader, US ambassador to Bangladesh Dan Mozena, and Chittagong port chairman Anwarul Islam.
