Bangladesh Economic & Infrastructure Development - Updates & Discussions

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One can take the MV Bay One, a mini cruise ship to St. Martin's Island, the lowest point geographically in Southern Bangladesh. The ship is berthed at the Patenga Waterbus terminal in Chittagong City, and not at Teknaf, which was the take off point for St. Martin before. Ship is equipped with Fin stabilizers, which reduces yawing and rolling in rough seas. Don't mind the bizarre Christmas music by TV morons with sub-par taste.

 

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Updates on Padma Rail Link Bridge, building of viaducts has started on BuriGanga and Dhaleshwari rivers.

Updates on Purbachal Expressway Project going from Airport to the suburbias in Purbachal . Flanked on both sides by 100 feet wide canals, walkways, greenery and landscaping.

 

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Six Mega Projects in Bangladesh outlined in one video. Sorry Bengali only.

• Dohazari-Ramu-Cox's Bazar-Ghumdhum Railway
• Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant
• Padma Bridge
• Padma Rail Connection Project
• Dhaka Metrorail
• Bangabandhu Tunnel - "One City Two Towns" Three and a half kilometer long tunnel is being constructed at the bottom of Karnafuli river to connect Anwara with Chittagong city. China Communications Construction Company is working on the Chinese-funded Bangabandhu Tunnel project. At the beginning of the epidemic, 51 percent of the project was implemented till last March. Progress till December 2020 is 71 percent. In the meantime, excavation work and installation of a ring between two tubes about two and a half kilometers long along the bottom of the river has been completed. The excavation work of the second tube has started on December 12. Work on the project, which was approved in 2015, started at the end of 2016 due to untimely release of funds. The target is to complete the work by December 2022. The total cost of Bangabandhu tunnel has been estimated at Tk. 9,880 crore.

 

[Bilal9]

Bangladesh Diesel Plant is a CNC lathe and machining center equipped facility that can turn out custom (bespoke) and off-the-shelf forged and machined spares and parts for automotive, Feed Mill, Jute Mill, Dredger and Printing press uses. Their products are generally known by users as having even higher quality than original spares, some of which can no longer be sourced.

The products they make is as diverse as Stainless Steel Concertina wire for warfield/border uses and also molds of various types such as for blow-molded (PET bottles), roto -molded (large water tanks) and injection-molded plastic items (PP/PS/PE toys/furniture).

Die and Mold (Spinner MVC 1300 3-axis CNC vertical machining center, then shot blasted)

Other than forged and machined items, they also make/assemble various technical infra items for the govt. such as Ambient Water Supply units, Prepaid digital electric meters, Shallow water pumps (medium and heavy duty, both electric and engine driven).

 

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Dhaka Metrorail Update 2/17/21

 

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1st Terminal progress video of Payra Port (third largest port in Bangladesh and one of two new ones). Altogether 5 terminals will be built here at Payra. Terminals will be completed by 2022 and the total container handling capacity for Payra will be 8,00,000 TEUs per year in addition to 2,00,000 tons of general cargo yearly.

In two years' time - Bangladesh will have five large seaports, one of them a deep sea port, capable of servicing mother container vessels.

 

[Bilal9]

Dhaka Metrorail Line-5 (Hemayetpur to Bhatara via Mirpur/Banani) Soil testing continues. Line 5 will be next Line after the current Line-6 completes.

Line-5, (like line-6) will be a 20 KM long line but unlike Line-6 will be built in elevated and underground portions and will go from West to East-end of town, with 14 stations altogether.

There will be a total of 5 lines built under the current Dhaka MetroRail plan, which maybe expanded in later stages.

 

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Dhaka University TSC (Teacher Student Center) renovation. Good news is that they will NOT demolish the old structure, and will renovate them to modern standards.

 

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Details for Dhaka Metrorail Line-6, line-5 and line-1 stations shown below. Line 5 will be partly undergorund as well and Line 1 will be completely underground From Kamalapur Rail complex all the way to Airport.

Line 6 will be commissioned later this year, line 5 is next, then line 1. Sequence for Lines 5 and 1 may also be reversed, per latest reports.

Line-6 (Project is roughly 24 months late)

Line-5 (Soil test ongoing)

Line-1 (Late Planning Stage)

The Revised Strategic Transport Plan (RSTP) will include the construction of 5 Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) or metro rail lines in Dhaka to be implemented in three phases.

There is an excellent white paper (actually a detailed report) on this.

https://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/sites/default/files/gallagher_urban_transport.pdf

Line 6: The construction of Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development Project (DMRTDP) which includes the first metro rail line the MRT Line 6 from Uttara to Motijheel is expected to completed by 2019-2020 at the cost of Tk21,000 crore. The Line 6 is a north south line with a total length of 41 kilometre that will eventually connect Uttara to Ashulia and Motijheel to Kamalapur by 2025.

Line 1: The second line to be completed will be the MRT Line 1 also a north south line which will connect from Dhaka airport to Kamalapur at first and extended eventually connect Gazipur, Kamalapur to Keraniganj’s Jhilmil Residential Area and Khilkhet to Purbachal Residential Area. Japan International Cooperative Agency (JICA) has completed a pre-feasibility study which was accepted by Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA). The report says the MRT will reduce the travel time to a mere 23 minutes from Dhaka airport to Kamalapur while going from Purbachal to Kamalapur will take just 39 minutes.

Line 5: The third metro rail line is a east west route the MRT Line 5 which will connect from Bulta to Badda with stops at Mirpur, Gabtoli bus terminal, Dhanmondi, Basundhara city mall and Hatirjheel link road at a total length of 35 kilometres. Jica’s feasibility study of the second and third metro rail MRT Line 1 project will be completed by 2016 and construction work will hopefully begin in 2017 and completed by 2025,” said Road Transport Highway Division secretary MAN Siddique.

Line 2: The fourth metro rail The MRT Line 2 will be constructed to connect Ashulia, Savar, Gabtoli, Dhaka University, DSCC Nagar Bhaban and Kamalapur at a length of 40 kilometres which will directly connect Dhaka EPZ to Kamalapur ICD.

Line 4: The MRT Line 4 will connect Kamalapur to Narayanganj at a length of just 16 kilometre. According to MAN Siddique the fourth and fifth metro rail will be completed by 2035. He also said that certain parts of MRT Line 2, 4 and 5 will be underground.

 

[SpaceMan18]

Ngl those N scale model trains look cool

 

[Bilal9]

Rajshahi Street Lights installed recently

 

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Karnaphuli Multi-Lane Tunnel Project inside activity

The Karnaphuli Multilane Tunnel is in the port of Chittagong, Bangladesh is a proposed 3.32 kilometer-long, 10 meter-Dia tunnel under the river Karnaphuli.

The tunnel is expected to be completed in 2021, and will be the first of its kind in Bangladesh.

Total length of the tunnel is 3.32 km. including approach road total length of the tunnel is around 9.34km.

One tunnel already completed. 2nd tunnel boring work will start soon.

In this video you will see some technical works of inside of tunnel. CCCC Ltd. is the construction company of this Tunnel.

Some other Karnaphuli Tunnel related videos:

Construction and mortar fill

Wall Segment production

 

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New Dhaka Metrorail Hub at Kamalapur won't require demolition of old Station & Terminal Structure

Video Report on Shahjalal 3rd Terminal

 

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Keraniganj Flyover Freeway Interchange

Purbachal Central At-grade Intersection - 3D

Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway to be expanded to 10 lane status

 

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Madani Avenue with 6 lanes from Gulshan/Baridhara suburbs connecting to Purbachal suburbs.