News / Chittagong depots plagued with boxes as Eid festival begins

Photo: Chittagong Port.

Chittagong is facing a “huge” backlog of outbound containers ahead of the week-long Eid-related closure of factories.

Today’s Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest Muslim festival, has seen long queues of trucks waiting at the 19 inland container depots in Chittagong.

Depot workers and drivers began the religious holiday in the early hours.

Ruhul Amin Sikder, secretary general of the Bangladesh Inland Container Depot Association, said around  1,000 trucks, laden with outbound cargo, were waiting in depots to unload, containing about 14,000 teu of exports ...