The Effectiveness of Container Inspection Systems (CIS) on Ports Management in Bangladesh

Growing pressure of regional, bilateral and cross border trading culture is putting positive impact on increased domestic and international containerized trade volume in areas land and seaport areas in Bangladesh. The study is designed to measure effectiveness of container scanning system (CSS) to implement in both sea and land port areas and thus how operational dynamism can be ensured for faster operational activities in port areas due to demand pressure on digitalized commercial environment in future. Qualitative data collection applied by using Delphi method has been chosen to gauge the effectiveness of port performance using container inspection technology in many advance economy. And, it is becoming much important in emergence economy like Bangladesh. Data have been collected from respective seaports concerned two groups of government officials in three locations to captures their opinions in two separate sessions. Sea containerized data that is recorded in Govt. official websites on yearly export and import from last five years to the latest year has been gathered for the purpose of analysis. Study has successfully contributed that there is very positive responses on using CSS in port areas of Bangladesh to keep pace of growth rate of containerized trading. The users of port authority of Bangladesh will receive several benefits such as custom inspection and port security measure by using CIS. The study also delineates sustainable economic achievement and its growth prospect in a positive way from present to the forward in Bangladesh.