Consultancy Services for Initial Environmental Examination (IEE) on Feasibility Study for Construction of Heavy Lift Cargo Jetty Between 13 No. Jetty of Chittagong Port and Moheshkhal (Existing Pilot Jetty).

Chattogram Port is the largest port of the country and plays a vital role in the economic growth of the country. The modernization of the Chattogram Port is extremely important for rapid economic growth of the country. In view of the growing container traffic, the Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) plans to establish a jetty as a part of the existing Karnaphuli Container Terminal (KCT) to handle the growing demand of the near future.

The scope of work of the IEE includes:

§ Review of relevant all documents and data/information from secondary sources, and identifies gaps to be filled, relevant to the environmental screening needs from field surveys.

§ Provide a description of the environmental baseline (such as baseline data on physical, biological/ecological and socio-economic characteristics of the subproject site along with area of influence).

§ Represent the field surveys where include baseline (air, noise, surface water and ground/drinking water) environmental quality monitoring at representative and sensitive locations, and identification of macro-level environmental issues within the project influence area.

§ Collect information on environmentally sensitive locations on and along the sub-projects as well as within the sub-project’s influence area.

§ Arrange consultation with the local people especially project persons (PPs) to find out their opinions about the sub-projects.

§ Analysis of alternatives to the proposed project.

§ Identify and assessment of potential environmental impacts due to implementation of the sub-projects.

§ Conduct preliminary analysis of impacts and management measures of the nature, scale and magnitude of the impacts that the sub-project is likely to cause on the environment and classify the same using established methods.

§ Develop Environmental Management Plan (EMP) including Monitoring Plan for successfully implementing the mitigation/enhancement measures.

§ Prepare an IEE report in accordance with the DOE safeguard policies and guidelines and approved ToR.