Overview
- Dockworkers and port employees escalated from three days of partial stoppages to a 24-hour, open-ended work abstention that halted most operations.
- Protesters blocked harbor pilot services and other support vessels, suspending or delaying scheduled ship movements through the Karnaphuli channel.
- Port officials later arranged tug support that allowed at least two vessels to depart after the high tide window, but broader traffic remained disrupted.
- Cargo handling has largely stopped with cranes idle, containers piling up, and thousands of trucks stranded, following an estimated 40 percent drop in throughput during the initial phase.
- Organizers demand cancellation of the lease talks and allege government pressure on negotiators at the BIDA office, while the terminal remains under Navy-run Chattogram Dry Dock management pending any deal.