A vessel named MV THAI BINH 01 carrying 12,500 tonnes of sunned rice from Vietnam under the Government-to-Government agreement has arrived at the Chattogram Port.
Under the G2G agreement, a contract has been made for importing a total of 1,00,000 tonnes of sunned rice from Vietnam, said a PID press release on Saturday.
In the meantime, 72,700 tonnes of rice have already arrived here as per the agreement.
Meanwhile, the sample testing of the rice, kept on the ship, has already been completed.
Necessary measures have been taken to start the rice-unloading process, it added.
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