| SL No.: 21 Project Name: Construction of a New Inland Container Depot () near Dhirasram Railway Station 
|  Implementing Agency: Bangladesh Railway
Department/Ministry: Ministry of Railway Sector: Transport Objective: The proposed near Dhirasram Railway station is planned to cater the rapid growth of containerized traffic handled in the Chittagong Port. Moreover, industries like Ready Made Garments in particular which are shifting to areas North of Dhaka, the woven mills situated in Mirpur, Tejgaon, Demra and factories on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway, Dhaka EPZ, Savar, Tongi, Gazipur etc. are accessible to the proposed Site at Dhirasram. It is also ideally suited for containerization of Indo-Bangla trade in the near future. The objectives of this project are to increase in the number of container movements by rail in the key Dhaka-Chittagong transport corridor with regionally competitive transport costs and more reliable movement of import and export cargo, modal shift for import/export Cargo from break bulk movement by truck to container movement by rail, developments of modern and seamless inter modal transport, higher quality freight train services and effective & efficient operation of planned . Project Scope: The handling capacity of the proposed is 354,000 TEUs. The will be developed on approximately 55 ha of land and with railway spur of 6 km connecting the with the national railway network on around 26 ha land. Transaction Advisor: PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited Project Status: Development stage (Feasibility Study) |