First 10.2m draught vessel anchors at Bangladesh’s Payra Port

[Homo Sapiens]

First 10.2m draught vessel anchors at Bangladesh’s Payra Port​

by Apparel Resources News-Desk 10-April-2023 | 1 min read
Image Courtesy: Fibre2Fashion

Thanks to the dredging work being carried out, the Payra Port of Bangladesh has been able to accommodate a large vessel, after a vessel having a draught of 10.2 metres, for the first time, was able to anchor at the port recently since the port started operating almost a decade ago.

This is as per media reports which citing the Deputy Director for Media and Traffic of Payra Port, Azizur Rahman, maintained the vessel — Marshall Islands-flagged Aruna Hulya, which is 188 metres long and 33 metres wide, entered the port recently with 37,800 tonnes of coal from the Port of Balikpapan in Indonesia.

The anchoring of a vessel of its size at the port followed the completion of the dredging work last month only, which has turning the 75-kilometre Rabnabad channel 100 metres to 125 metres wide and 10.5 metres deep, which has allowed big vessels to drop goods directly at Payra Port, which is Bangladesh’s third seaport even as it also helped to cut transportation costs as big ships will no longer need to stop at outer anchorage to have smaller vessels carry their cargo the rest of the way.

First 10.2m draught vessel anchors at Bangladesh’s Payra Port | Trade Data News Bangladesh

Dredging helps Payra Port to accommodate large vessel, reports claimed.

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[Bilal9]

First 10.2m draught vessel anchors at Bangladesh’s Payra Port​

by Apparel Resources News-Desk 10-April-2023 | 1 min read
Image Courtesy: Fibre2Fashion

Thanks to the dredging work being carried out, the Payra Port of Bangladesh has been able to accommodate a large vessel, after a vessel having a draught of 10.2 metres, for the first time, was able to anchor at the port recently since the port started operating almost a decade ago.

This is as per media reports which citing the Deputy Director for Media and Traffic of Payra Port, Azizur Rahman, maintained the vessel — Marshall Islands-flagged Aruna Hulya, which is 188 metres long and 33 metres wide, entered the port recently with 37,800 tonnes of coal from the Port of Balikpapan in Indonesia.

The anchoring of a vessel of its size at the port followed the completion of the dredging work last month only, which has turning the 75-kilometre Rabnabad channel 100 metres to 125 metres wide and 10.5 metres deep, which has allowed big vessels to drop goods directly at Payra Port, which is Bangladesh’s third seaport even as it also helped to cut transportation costs as big ships will no longer need to stop at outer anchorage to have smaller vessels carry their cargo the rest of the way.

First 10.2m draught vessel anchors at Bangladesh’s Payra Port | Trade Data News Bangladesh

Dredging helps Payra Port to accommodate large vessel, reports claimed.

apparelresources.com

That picture above is neither of the Payra port nor of the ship Aruna Hulya.

Here is a 2021 image of the coal transshipment terminal at Payra

And here is the ship ARUNA HULYA (Bulk Carrier) - IMO: 9635391

Summer DWT: 55582 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 188 x 32.3 m
Year Built: 2012
Draught: 8.7 m / 1.6 m / 19.2 m Avg/Min/Max
Speed: 10.6 kn / 16.3 kn Avg/Max

 

[bluesky]

I do not understand why the govt pursued this excavation of a river to make it 10.4 m deep that will be filled with silt and soil every day.

Soon the river depth will shrink to 10.0 m, then to 9.8 m and so on. The govt will have to keep on dredging the channel every day of the year.

This port will soon become a white elephant. The gob should allow it to be a shallow port without dredging like Chittagong and use Matarbari Port as the main port.

Dredging is very costly and the country will be paying more money in dollars to the foreign dredging company than it will earn from shipments.

 

[Bilal9]

I do not understand why the govt pursued this excavation of a river to make it 10.4 m deep that will be filled with silt and soil every day.

Soon the river depth will shrink to 10.0 m, then to 9.8 m and so on. The govt will have to keep on dredging the channel every day of the year.

This port will soon become a white elephant. The gob should allow it to be a shallow port without dredging like Chittagong and use Matarbari Port as the main port.

Dredging is very costly and the country will be paying more money in dollars to the foreign dredging company than it will earn from shipments.

You are absolutely right @bluesky bhai. This much downstream where the rivers are so close to the ocean, the silt movement is going to be extremely rapid and shipping channels dredged and dug will fill up in no time flat.

If yearly capital dredging costs exceed that of savings attained by operations with smaller normal shallow draft vessels (either coal bulkers or containers) - then capital dredging should be discontinued. The way I see it, capital dredging is just a way by the shipping minister to make crores of Taka in "bakhra".

 

[bluesky]

The way I see it, capital dredging is just a way by the shipping minister to make crores of Taka in "bakhra".

Someone posted news in the PDF about canceling the dredging part of the project a few months ago. But, somehow it resurfaced and the country is paying hundreds of millions of dollars.

There must be someone behind this evil plot.

 

[fallstuff]

You gentlemen have it wrong ! Dredging more often means more money for the parties involved in dredging.

 

[Bilal9]

You gentlemen have it wrong ! Dredging more often means more money for the parties involved in dredging.

Bhai I know high level businesspeople who are involved in Bangladesh dredging business (very large cutter suction dredgers). Or who get contractors like Jan de Nul who did Payra dredging.

Lubher Goor ordhek Pipra-tey khai. By Pipra (choonty) talking about senior BIWTA functionaries, Shipping minister and his boss, you know who.

The only ones making money here are senior govt. people via percentage.

Ei byabshai bechara-ra kono rokomey byabsha nia tikka aasey - lubh nai. Podey podey ghoosh, ta-o mota onker ghoosh (50% of total contract). Ei BAL gulir khai - limit chharaya gesey.

Bangladesh has become not only unfit to live in, but also to do business honestly. Only a coup can restore normalcy.

 

[fallstuff]

I do not understand why the govt pursued this excavation of a river to make it 10.4 m deep that will be filled with silt and soil every day.

Soon the river depth will shrink to 10.0 m, then to 9.8 m and so on. The govt will have to keep on dredging the channel every day of the year.

This port will soon become a white elephant. The gob should allow it to be a shallow port without dredging like Chittagong and use Matarbari Port as the main port.

Dredging is very costly and the country will be paying more money in dollars to the foreign dredging company than it will earn from shipments.

Actually the location not maybe all that bad considering access, coastal area depth, and local infrastructure.
I don't know a lot about location selection, but there are just so many rivers that flows to sea in Bangladesh that it would be hard to select a location far away from a river.

 

[bluesky]

Actually the location not maybe all that bad considering access, coastal area depth, and local infrastructure.
I don't know a lot about location selection, but there are just so many rivers that flows to sea in Bangladesh that it would be hard to select a location far away from a river.

Any location near the sea shore is bad where the dredging benefits cannot be retained without further dredging in all time to come.

BD rivers carry silts that will enter the rivers at their mouths and keep on accumulating that requires further dredging.

That silts accumulate can be attested by the formation of islands near the sea shores. There is no proven way to stop siltation in a river branch of Padma/ Ganga,

 

[Homo Sapiens]

I do not understand why the govt pursued this excavation of a river to make it 10.4 m deep that will be filled with silt and soil every day.

Soon the river depth will shrink to 10.0 m, then to 9.8 m and so on. The govt will have to keep on dredging the channel every day of the year.

This port will soon become a white elephant. The gob should allow it to be a shallow port without dredging like Chittagong and use Matarbari Port as the main port.

Dredging is very costly and the country will be paying more money in dollars to the foreign dredging company than it will earn from shipments.