• About Us
  • Copyright Policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Authors
  • Career
  • Contact Us
Assamese |   Bengali |  
Saturday, January 23, 2021
NORTHEAST NOW
  • HOME
  • NORTH EAST
    • Assam
    • Meghalaya
    • Tripura
    • Mizoram
    • Manipur
    • Nagaland
    • Arunachal
    • Sikkim
  • Neighbours
    • Nepal
    • Bhutan
    • China
    • Myanmar
    • Bangladesh
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Environment
  • Citizen Journalists
  • Opinion
No Result
View All Result
  • HOME
  • NORTH EAST
    • Assam
    • Meghalaya
    • Tripura
    • Mizoram
    • Manipur
    • Nagaland
    • Arunachal
    • Sikkim
  • Neighbours
    • Nepal
    • Bhutan
    • China
    • Myanmar
    • Bangladesh
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Environment
  • Citizen Journalists
  • Opinion
No Result
View All Result
NORTHEAST NOW
Assamese
Home Neighbour Bangladesh

Two freight ships complete journey from Bihar to Assam via Bangladesh

This journey was undertaken to raise hopes for revival of water transport

NE NOW NEWS by NE NOW NEWS
GUWAHATI , October 2, 2018 4:48 pm
One of the ships that reach Pandu port on monday

Pandu port in Guwahati

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Two freight ships loaded with 1,233 tonnes of bagged fly ash travelled from Kahalgaon in Bihar to Pandu in Guwahati covering a distance of 2085 km and reached Guwahati on Monday morning.

This journey was undertaken to raise hopes for revival of water transport that ended after the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.

This historical voyage proves that the Ganga and Brahmaputra, also known as  National Waterway 1 and National Waterway 2 respectively are suitable for transportation of ships carrying around 1500 to 2000 tonnes of freight through the India-Bangladesh Protocol Route.

This voyage started after the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) approved a cement firm of Sonapur for using waterways for procuring fly ash.

The fly ash bags from NTPC’s plant were loaded on two freight ships at Kahalgaon on August 30 and they crossed Bangladesh on September 11 and reached Assam on September 26, reports The Hindu.

The ships faced difficulties in Bangladesh because of heavy river currents from Chandpur to Baluchar and several disputes with fishermen in fishing boats at Bangladesh but nevertheless, the voyage had been a good one.

According to past reports, 10 such successful waterway transport projects have been completed on different national waterways.

Assam: BSF under Guwahati Frontier nabs 1 Indian cattle smuggler, rescues over 100 cattle heads

Assam: BSF under Guwahati Frontier nabs 1 Indian cattle smuggler, rescues over 100 cattle heads

India's longest arc bridge

Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma inaugurates India’s longest road arch bridge at Sohbar

Rhino horn

Assam: Dhubri Police arrest 4, seize rhino horn

Drugs, Areca nuts worth Rs 6.35 cr seized in Mizoram

Drugs, Areca nuts worth Rs 6.35 cr seized in Mizoram

NORTHEAST NOW

Northeast Now is a multi-app based hyper-regional bilingual news portal. Led by a group of professionals, the digital news platform covers every inch of the eight states of northeast India and the five neighbouring countries. It is the first of its kind new media initiative in the northeast, and is based in Guwahati. As the political dynamics in the northeast is intricate and fluid, Northeast Now is always politically neutral.

 
Our Properties
 
  • NORTHEAST NOW ASSAMESE
  • NORTHEAST JOBS
  • NORTHEAST TENDERS
  • INNFINITY
  • About Us
  • Copyright Policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Authors
  • Career
  • Contact Us

© 2019 - Maintained by EZEN Software & Technology Pvt. Ltd

No Result
View All Result
  • HOME
  • NORTH EAST
    • Assam
    • Meghalaya
    • Tripura
    • Mizoram
    • Manipur
    • Nagaland
    • Arunachal
    • Sikkim
  • Neighbours
    • Nepal
    • Bhutan
    • China
    • Myanmar
    • Bangladesh
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Environment
  • Citizen Journalists
  • Opinion

© 2019 - Maintained by EZEN Software & Technology Pvt. Ltd