The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Chittagong

An inland cargo ship was detained yesterday by Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) on charge of creating risks of serious accident in the port channel.

Following an allegation, the CPA Magistrate Court arrested the inland cargo vessel -'MV Sagar Seraji" from estuary of the port channel and caught the master of the ship, a CPA Court press release said.

The court also seized the professional certificate of the arrested master and ordered the authority to suspend him from the service and fined Taka 40,000 in default, to suffer 3 months in jail.