The Bangladeshi teenager is returning home from Malaysia on that ship

A Bangladeshi teenager has been rescued alive from an empty container of a ship carrying goods from Chittagong port to Malaysia. Last Tuesday at 10 pm Bangladesh time, he was rescued and admitted to the hospital.  

The container ship in which the teenager was rescued is the Hong Kong-based 'MV Integra'. The ship's native is Continental Traders Bd Limited of Chittagong. The assistant manager of the company SM Faisal told 1st Light, "The sailors of the ship informed us about this on Tuesday night. The rescued juvenile is said to be 12-15 years old. He has been admitted to the clinic.'

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According to the local shipping agent, on January 12, the ship departed from the NCT-1 jetty of Chittagong Port for Malaysia's Port Kela port. Four days later, on January 16, when the ship reached the outer anchorage of Kelang Port, sailors heard the keyword inside the row of empty containers. They immediately reported the matter to Port Kelang Port Authority. The port authority allowed the vessel to dock at the jetty on priority basis the next day. Then the suspicious container was lowered and the teenager was rescued alive.

The container from which the teenager was rescued alive is owned by Singapore-based Reliance Express Line. Chairman of Reliance Shipping and Logistics Limited, the company's local agent in Bangladesh, Mohammad Rashed told Prothom Alo that the ship had 105 empty containers of Reliance. I learned that the teenager was rescued from one of them. It was shipped by the port from Nemson Container Depot.

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When asked to know, Executive Director of Nemson Container Limited, Kazi Murad Hossain told 1st Light, 'Nobody told us about this. But leaving one door open from the depot, empty containers are sent to the port. The time of entry is verified by the port gate. No empty container from the depot is allowed to enter the port.

Port staff are supposed to first open the doors and verify that empty containers are being loaded by the port. After that, the door was closed and taken to the ship.

When asked, port secretary Omar Farooq told 1st Light that the Malaysian port has not informed the matter yet. After notifying the port it will be a notice of inquiry.

Last October, the body of a man was found in an empty container of a cargo ship bound for the port of Penang in Malaysia from Chittagong.