Vessel carrying 29,000 MT rice from Vietnam arrives at Ctg port
A cargo vessel, MV OBE Dinares, arrived at Chittagong Port from Vietnam on Saturday, carrying 29,000 tonnes of rice under the G2G agreement signed on February 3. Rice samples have been tested, and unloading will begin shortly. This is part of a larger deal to import 100,000 metric tons of rice, with 30,300 metric tons already delivered in two consignments.
A cargo vessel arrived at Chittagong Port from Vietnam carrying 29,000 tonnes of rice on Saturday.
The vessel, MV OBE Dinares with rice brought under the G2G agreement signed on 3 February, anchored at Chittagong Port, said a Food Ministry press release on Saturday.
The testing of samples of rice stored on the ship has already been completed and the process of unloading the rice will begin soon, it added.
An agreement was signed to import a total of 1 lakh metric tons of rice from Vietnam on a G2G basis. Of this, a total of 30,300 metric tons of rice in two consignments have already arrived in the country.
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Source : Daily Sun
