<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Two vessels with consignments for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Pabna have arrived at Mongla port.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The ships-- ‘MV Anka Sun’ and ‘MV Sapodilla’ carrying goods weighing 1400.42 MT and 518.42 MT respectively docked at the port’s jetty no 7 and 8 on Sunday evening, Mongla Port Authority (MPA) Harbor Master Captain Shaheen Majid said.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The unloading of goods from the ships started on Sunday night, he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Liberian flag carrier MV Sapodilla left St. Petersburg Port of Russia for Mongla Port and docked at the jetty no 8 of the port on Sunday evening.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another ship, MV Anka Sun left Russian Novorossiysk Sea Port on December 26 docked at the jetty no-7 of Mongla port at the same time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The goods will be taken to the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant by road, said Sadhan Kumar Chakraborty, local shipping agent of MV Anka Sun.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier on January 22, Panama flag carrier Liberty Harvest and Russian flag carrier MV Kamilia carrying goods for the nuke plant docked at the port.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sanctioned Russian ship Sparta III (Ursa Major) was scheduled to dock at Mongla port in the southwestern part of the country at the end of December last year and unload cargo destined for the Rooppur NPP.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But the authorities denied the ship permission to dock at the port after officials got a letter from the US Embassy in Dhaka saying that the ship was on a list of Russian ships sanctioned by the US.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On January 22, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said Bangladesh will not accept those Russian ships which are under sanctions. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>