India, Oct. 5 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
A barge carrying 540 metric tons of methanol left Bogibeel Terminal in Dibrugarh for Dhaka, Bangladesh, here today. Sarbananda Sonowal, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW), flagged off the vessel DLB Patkai, pushed by the tug Kushal Konwar from Bogibeel. Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma joined the ceremony virtually. It is the first cargo shipped from the upper Assam to a foreign port since India's independence in 1947, nearly 70 years after the town's river ghat closed.
The methanol, produced by state-owned Assam Petro-Chemicals Ltd. (APCL) at Namrup, is bound for Pangaon Port in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The vessel will travel about 768 kilometres dow...