HR Lines Limited announced it will launch a fixed day of the week user feeder service between Bangladesh, Singapore and Malaysia. The new Bangladesh Express Service (BES) will provide fixed day weekly port calls between Chattogram, Singapore and Port Klang. HR Lines will deploy its two Bangladesh flagged 1,550 TEUs containerships Sahare and Sarera to service this route. Advance Container Lines (ACL) is the commercial manager for the service. Maiden sailing from Chattogram of BES is sche...

Bangladesh’s container ship operator HR Lines Limited, a subsidiary of shipowner Karnaphuli Group, will expand its connectivity with regional transhipment hubs with the procurement of up to six boxships, each having a capacity of around 1,550TEU, in the coming months. With the acquisition of more ships to its fleet in 2021, HR Lines will expand services between Chattogram and the region’s transhipment hubs. Since June last year, HR Lines’ two container vessels, Sahare and Sarera, with a ca...

Bangladesh’s container ship operator HR Lines Limited, a subsidiary of shipowner Karnaphuli Group, will expand its connectivity with regional transhipment hubs with the procurement of up to six boxships, each having a capacity of around 1,550TEU, in the coming months. With the acquisition of more ships to its fleet in 2021, HR Lines will expand services between Chattogram and the region’s transhipment hubs. Since June last year, HR Lines’ two container vessels, Sahare and Sarera, with a ca...

In June last year, after a decade, two local vessels began carrying container shipments for import and exporting. This proved to be a success and this year four new vessels carrying the national flag will take to the sea. The present two vessels are owned by Karnaphuli Limited and operated by its subsidiary company HR Lines. Since inception, these two ships have carried 660, 396 units of containers at the first eight months of the 2020-21 fiscal. This brought in revenue of USD12 million, e...

দেশি জাহাজে কনটেইনার পরিবহনে নতুন সম্ভাবনা দেখা দিয়েছে। চলতি বছরে নামছে আরও চারটি নতুন জাহাজ। বর্তমানে চলছে দুটি। এক দশক পর গত বছরের জুনের শেষে দুটি দেশি জাহাজে আমদানি-রপ্তানি পণ্যবাহী কনটেইনার পরিবহন শুরু হয়। এতে সফলতা আসায় চলতি বছরে সমুদ্রে ভাসতে চলেছে লাল-সবুজ পতাকাবাহী আরও চারটি নতুন জাহাজ। বর্তমানে যে দুটি দেশীয় জাহাজ রপ্তানিমুখী কনটেইনার নিয়ে বিদেশে যাচ্ছে, সেগুলো কর্ণফুলী লিমিটেডের। জাহাজ দুটি পরিচালনা করছে গ্রুপটির সহযোগী প্রতিষ্ঠান এইচআর লাইনস। চালুর পর থেকে চলতি ২০২০-২১ অর্থবছরের...

Will invest Tk 225cr to add 4 ships; subsidiary HR Lines to expand service on Ctg-Colombo route MV Sahare, one of the container vessels owned by HR Lines Ltd, leaves Singapore port. Photo: COLLECTED Within a year of stepping into container feeder vessels operation between Chattogram and two regional hub ports, Karnaphuli Ltd is going to buy four more ships to expand its footprint in the region. HR Lines Ltd, a subsidiary of Karnaphuli Ltd, is set to inaugurate a weekly service on the Ch...

Bangladesh’s container ship operator HR Lines Limited, a subsidiary of shipowner Karnaphuli Group, will expand its connectivity with regional transhipment hubs with the procurement of up to six boxships, each having a capacity of around 1,550TEU, in the coming months. With the acquisition of more ships to its fleet in 2021, HR Lines will expand services between Chattogram and the region’s transhipment hubs. Since June last year, HR Lines’ two container vessels, Sahare and Sarera, with a ca...

Hamdan Hossain Chowdhury, a director of Karnaphuli Group, speaks about shipping business and shares the story of Karnaphuli group’s decades-long journey Hamdan Hossain Chowdhury, a director of Karnaphuli Group. Illustration: TBS In June 2020, two Bangladeshi flag carrier ships owned by Karnaphuli Group set sail for Singapore and Malaysia after a 10-year hiatus. HR Lines Ltd, an affiliate of the Karnaphuli Group, is operating the two ships – Sahare and Sarera as the feeder operator.  Est...

বাংলাদেশি পতাকাবাহী কন্টেইনার জাহাজ 'সারেরা' ১২৬১ একক কন্টেইনার নিয়ে চট্টগ্রাম বন্দর ছেড়ে গেছে আজ মঙ্গলবার বেলা সাড়ে ১১টায়। এরমধ্যে রপ্তানি পণ্যই ছিল ৮০০ একক। প্রথম জাহাজেই এত বিপুল বুকিং সাড়া পেয়ে উচ্ছ্বসিত জাহাজ মালিক ও পরিচালনাকারীরা। জাহাজটি চট্টগ্রাম বন্দর থেকে রপ্তানি পণ্য নিয়ে প্রথমে সিঙ্গাপুর বন্দর, সেখান থেকে মালয়েশিয়ার পোর্ট কেলাং যাবে। এরপর আবার আমদানি পণ্য নিয়ে একই রুট হয়ে চট্টগ্রাম আসবে। সপ্তাহের নির্দিষ্ট দিন প্রতি সোমবার 'বাংলাদেশ এক্সপ্রেস' সার্ভিসের জাহাজ ব...

CHATTOGRAM: After long 10 years a Bangladeshi flag carrier ship anchored at the jetty of Chittagong port on Sunday. The Bangladeshi flag carrier ship MV Sierra will start its maritime vogue on Tuesday next with export containers from Chittagong sea port. The Bangladeshi flag carrier ship will ply the Chattogram-Singapore-Kelang port route regularly, said sources. Karnaphuli Group procured two ships named MV Sarera and MV Sahera which are carrying Bangladeshi's flags. Of these, MV Sa...