The Capacity Planning of Bay Terminal as An Expansion of Chittagong Port for Encountering Congestion Problem Using Queuing Model Integrated with Economic Factors

Abstract

Chittagong Port is the main port Bangladesh which handles almost 95 percent of the export-import of the county. Besides Bangladesh, it is also used by its neighboring countries, Nepal, Bhutan and India and makes it the second busiest port in the Bay of Bengal region and 58th globally. With the economic growth of the country, exportimport also increases and all that pressure comes in the Chittagong Port. But it has not seen that much development accordingly. As a result, congestion problem has become a common issue here which on the process is disrupting the economic progression of the country resulting in huge economic loss every year. This paper conducts a study in finding the solution of this problem. In that process, numbers of jetties on the port, container terminal capacity, crane requirement per berth were calculated needed to withstand the problem.