Sources say that at least five ships have arrived with 59,044 tonnes of crude soybean and palm oil at the Chittagong seaport.
Unloading of the oil carried by one of the vessels has already been completed, they also said.
Orient Challenge, NS Stella, Meghna Pride, TONNES Sangin and MV Sumatra Palm vessels carrying 59,044 tons of cooking oils from two oil exporting countries, berthed at the port from April 29 last to May 6.
Sources said that Orient Challenge loaded with 21,000 tons crude soybean oil imported from Argentina arrived at the port on April 29, NS Stella carrying 7,000 tons oil from the same country reached the port on May 2, Meghna Pride loaded with 7,799 tons palm oil from Indonesia reached the port on May 4, Sangin with 11,245 tons imported oil from the same southeast Asian country arrived at the port on May 4 while MV Sumatra Palm with 12,000 tons palm crude reached the port on May 6.
S Alam Group, TK Group and others are the importers of the commodity.
Sources at Chittagong Port and cooking oil importers have confirmed the arrival of the five vessels at the seaport from those countries in the last eight days.
Port officials said unloading of the cooking oil from Orient Challenge has already been completed while unloading of the same from four other vessels was continuing until Saturday.
Both officials and importers informed that some other ships loaded with a sizable quantity of imported edible oils are on their way to Chittagong Port.
The ships are likely to arrive within the next two or three days.
