Cabinet Committee Approves Import of 75 Lakh Tonnes Fuel Oil for 2022

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs Thursday approved the import of 75 lakh tonnes of fuel oil for 2022. Additional Secretary to the Cabinet Division Shamsul Arefin made the remarks to the media.

He responded to the journalists' questions after coming from a meeting of the committee chaired by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal.

In addition, BPC has been given permission to import 58 lakh tonnes of refined fuel oil next year.

Normally, the finance minister addresses the press and answers their questions, but he was absent from the briefing on Thursday.

Earlier, a cabinet committee on public procurement meeting chaired by the finance minister also approved the import of 80,000 tonnes of high sulphur furnace oil from Unipec Singapore Pte Ltd for November and December at a cost of Tk 365 crore on Thursday.

The committee cleared the import of 10,000 tonnes of phosphoric acid for Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation's TSP Complex in Chattogram (BCIC). The acid would be supplied by Dhaka Agro-Industrial Complex for Tk 61 crore.

BCIC was also given permission to import 30,000 tonnes of bulk urea from Saudi Basic Industries Corporation for Tk 195 crore, as well as 30,000 tonnes of bagged urea fertiliser from Qatar for Tk 198 crore.

Furthermore, the buying committee approved Tk 274 crore in public works spending for the development of the "FDC Complex" of the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation. The building job was bestowed upon Biswas Trading & Construction.