For the first time since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, a Russian ship carrying machineries for Rooppur nuclear power plant arrived at the Mongla deep sea port today (August 1, 2022).

The Russian flagged ship "MV Kamilla" anchored at jetty number 6 of Mongla port at 4:00pm, our Bagerhat correspondent reported.

Earlier on June 28, the ship left the Russian port of Tamaruk with 13 sailors on board and carrying 3328.237MT of machineries for Rooppur nuclear power plant.

HM Dulal, owner of Nuru and Sons, a contractor for these products, said, "We will try to start clearing the products from the evening and send those to Rooppur as soon as possible.''

Rear Admiral Mohammad Musa, chairman of Mongla Port, said that the machineries of all the major projects in the country were imported from abroad. So according to the rules, these products come to Mongla Port. However, even though Russia has had a break for some time due to the Ukraine War, trade relations with Russia are good.

He expected that goods will arrive regularly using Russian ships from now on.

On October 17, 2021, "MV Pescavalis" was the last Russian ship to arrive at Mongla port with 3700MT machineries for Rooppur plant before the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24.