Today the Chittagong Port Authority signed with the company terminal operator APM Terminals and QNS Container Services of Dhaka the 30-year concession contract for the design, financing, construction and operation of the new Laldia Container Terminal (LCT) Port Container Terminal (LCT) Bangladeshi Chittagong ( of 3 January 2024). It is expected that during the course of the contract, the duration can be extended on the basis of key performance indicator, more than 550 million dollars will be invested, a figure which makes this initiative the most important partnership public-private sector in Bangladesh.

The new deep-water container terminal will allow to accommodate container holders up to a capacity of 6,000 TEUs compared to ships up to 2,800 TEUs that can currently Climb the Bangladeshi port. The LCT terminal will have a annual traffic capacity of over 800,000 TEUs will increase the current capacity of the port by +44%.