Big win for India against China

The sea port will facilitate trade through the Chittagong port Bangladesh’s first ever deep sea port, Matarbari port will be made functional by 2025, said the officials at the contract signing ceremony for the Consultancy Services of Matarbari Port Development Project held at Hotel Intercontinental, Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon. Planning Minister MA Mannan MP and State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury virtually joined the ceremony as chief guest and special guest respectively. Mohammed Mezbah Uddin Chowdhury, secretary of the Shipping Ministry chaired the program. Senior officials from the Government, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the Embassy of Japan were present on the occasion. Two contracts were signed between Chittagong Port Authority with the Nippon Koei JV and Roads and Highways Department (RHD) with Oriental Consultants Global Company Ltd. Zafar Alam, project director of Chittagong Port Authority and Naoki Kudo, representative of