Chittagong Port Authority

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Chattogram Port Authority
চট্টগ্রাম বন্দর কর্তৃপক্ষ
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Chattogram Port Authority building
Agency overview
Formed1 October 1950;74 years ago (1 October 1950)
Jurisdiction Port of Chittagong
HeadquartersBandar Bhaban, Po Box: 2013, Chattogram - 4100
Agency executive
Parent department Flag of Bangladesh.svg Government of Bangladesh
Parent agency Ministry of Shipping
Website www.cpa.gov.bd

Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) [1] is a government agency of Bangladesh responsible for the management, maintenance and governance of the country's major port of Chittagong, located in the city of Chittagong on the Karnaphuli River nine nautical miles from the shore of the Bay of Bengal of the Indian Ocean. [2] The CPA is part of the Ministry of Shipping. [3] [4]

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Chairman of Chittagong Port Authority

Rear Admiral S M Moniruzzaman the current chairman of CPA.

History

The port of Chittagong has been in operation since at least the 4th century BC, and in modern times was governed by Port Commissioners and the Port Railway following the Port Commissioner's Act of 1887 in British India. After the partition of India in 1947 and a subsequent rise in port traffic, the modern Chittagong Port Authority began its existence in 1960 as the Chittagong Port Trust. Due to continued expansion and lack of effective governance, after the Bangladesh Liberation War the Port Trust was granted semi-autonomous status within the government, and renamed to Chittagong Port Authority, in 1976. [5] [4]

List of Chairmen

NameTerm startTerm endRef
Engineer M. A. Barry1 October 195030 September 1961 [6]
Major General S. M. Afzal 1 October 196117 June 1965 [6]
Commodore Md Asie Al Avi18 June 196531 December 1970 [6]
Commodore I. H. Malik1 January 197115 December 1971 [6]
Gholam Kibria 16 December 197130 December 1977 [6]
Engineer Mahmudul Islam1 January 197812 February 1978 [6]
Syed Mansur-ul Haque 13 February 197830 June 1981 [6]
Engineer Mahmudul Islam30 June 198125 February 1982 [6]
Engineer Mahmudul Islam26 February 198218 February 1984 [6]
Nurul Momen Khan 19 February 19845 December 1985 [6]
AZM Nasir Uddin6 December 198518 April 1987 [6]
Captain Sufi Ashraful Islam 19 April 198731 May 1987 [6]
Captain S. Y. Kamal1 June 198711 July 1988 [6]
Engineer Md. Shahdat Hossain12 July 198818 May 1990 [6]
M. A. Kamal19 May 199015 July 1990 [6]
Captain M. Zakaria16 July 199020 July 1991 [6]
M. A. Kamal21 July 199131 July 1992 [6]
AKM Amanul Islam Chowdhury 1 August 199224 February 1994 [6]
Captain Zahir Uddin Mahmood25 February 19948 March 1994 [6]
Engineer Md. Omar Hadi9 March 199430 October 1994 [6]
Captain Zahir Uddin Mahmood1 November 19941 December 1994 [6]
Engineer Md. Omar Hadi2 December 199423 March 1995 [6]
Captain Zahir Uddin Mahmood 24 March 199525 June 1997 [6]
Zulfiquer Haider Chowdhury26 June 199721 September 1997 [6]
Md. Rezwanul Haque22 September 199712 May 1999 [6]
Commodore Ghulam Rabbani, psc, BN12 May 199925 July 2002 [6]
Commodore Zulfiqar Ali 25 July 200224 July 2003 [6]
AMM Shahadat Hossain 25 July 200315 November 2006 [6]
Md. Mosleh Uddin10 May 200724 May 2007 [6]
Captain Yahaya Syed 16 November 200610 May 2007 [6]
Commodore M. Farooque 24 May 20079 July 2008 [6]
Commodore Riaz Uddin Ahmed 9 July 200812 February 2011 [6]
Commodore M. Anwarul Islam 13 February 201126 February 2012 [6]
Commodore Mohammad Nizamuddin Ahmed 26 February 201211 March 2012 [6]
Rear Admiral Mohammad Nizamuddin Ahmed 12 March 201224 January 2016 [6]
Commodore Zulfiqur Aziz 24 January 201631 March 2016 [6]
Rear Admiral Mohammad Khaled Iqbal 31 March 201629 January 2018 [6]
Commodore Zulfiqur Aziz 29 January 20186 November 2018 [6]
Rear Admiral Zulfiqur Aziz 7 November 201812 April 2020 [6]
Rear Admiral S.M Abul Kalam Azad 12 April 202031 January 2021 [6]
Rear Admiral M Shahjahan 31 January 20212 May 2023 [6]
Rear Admiral M Sohail 2 May 202310 August 2024 [6]
Rear Admiral S. M. Moniruzzaman 11 August 2024 [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ctg port witnesses largest-ever container congestion". Dhaka Tribune. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  2. ↑ CPA, Navigation Archived 2009-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ CPA, Administrative Ministry Archived 2009-05-20 at the Wayback Machine
  4. 1 2 "Chittagong Port Authority - Banglapedia". en.banglapedia.org. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  5. ↑ CPA, History Archived 2008-02-15 at the Wayback Machine
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 "Present & Ex Chairman List". Chittagong Port Authority. Retrieved 17 September 2024.

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