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PIL ship Kota Bistari arrested in Chittagong

The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has arrested a container vessel of Pacific International Lines (PIL), namely Kota Bistari, being ordered by an admiral court, for damaging three boxes.

The ship, with containers onboard, was supposed to sail on Wednesday noon but could not do so due to the court order after an importer filed a case seeking compensation for the damage.

Now the Singapore flag carrier vessel with outbound containers onboard has been sent to the outer anchorage of Chittagong port and will stay there until the issues are solved, Ahsan Habib, Senior Manager, Operations, Logistics, and SOC Marketing at PIL (Bangladesh) Ltd confirmed.

He said talks are underway with the party that filed the case for a solution.

“We could successfully discharge the three containers that were damaged onboard,” he pointed out.

Habib said since Thursday (20 July) all the pending issues could not be resolved indicating that they could not manage suspension or vacation of the court order which held the ship from sailing.

“We are hopeful that the issues can be resolved within a day or two and the ship may sail again on Sunday,” he added.


Sharar Nayel
Asia Correspondent





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