Chittagong Port Authority

The CPA maintains that the proposed long-term concession of the New Mooring Container Terminal to foreign operators is a necessary step for modernization and international partnership despite intense public and labor-led opposition.

CPA was constituted under the Chittagong Port Authority Ordinance, 1976 (Ordinance No. LII of 1976) and its governance framework was subsequently updated by the Chittagong Port Authority Act, 2022 (Act No. 08 of 2022), which formally codified the landlord-port model under which CPA leases terminal land and berths to operators rather than running all operations directly. Rear Admiral S M Moniruzzaman (previously MD of Bangladesh Shipping Corporation) took charge as Chairman on 12 August 2024, confirmed by The Financial Express, TBS News, and Maritime Gateway from contemporaneous reporting. staff_count and annual_budget_bdt are left null: CPA's staff figure varies across sources (craft.co cites 359, which appears to be white-collar only; official sanctioned headcount not confirmed in a primary government document within the verification window) and CPA's own budget is embedded within Ministry of Shipping allocations without a separately published CPA budget line in publicly accessible FY2025-26 documents. These fields should be populated from CPA's official annual report when available. The user-specified date of 'May 9' for the MGH private terminal deal is inconsistent with reporting from The Daily Star, TBS News, BSS, and The Financial Express, all of which place the signing on 20 April 2026 at the CPA boardroom in Chattogram; the April 20 date is used here. Record verified against 2+ independent primary sources for all six notable events.