First International Cargo Voyage from Dibrugarh to Dhaka

The correct answer is Pangaon Port, Dhaka. The vessel leaving the Bogibeel Terminal at Dibrugarh carries methanol made by Assam Petro-Chemicals Limited and sails to Pangaon Port, which lies at Dhaka in Bangladesh. It travels along National Waterway-2, that is the Brahmaputra, and then along the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route. This is the first occasion since Independence on which a cargo consignment moves from Dibrugarh to a port outside the country, which is why the sailing is being treated as the reopening of an old trade link.

Chattogram and Mongla are both ports of Bangladesh, but neither of them is the destination named for this maiden voyage, so options A and C are wrong. Sittwe is a port in Myanmar and has no part in this sailing, so option D is wrong as well. Only Pangaon fits the announcement made by the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.

The correct answer is the Brahmaputra. The methanol consignment sailing from the Bogibeel Terminal at Dibrugarh to Pangaon Port in Dhaka moves on National Waterway-2, which is the Brahmaputra, and afterwards on the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route. Before Independence this same river was the main link between Upper Assam and the markets of the world, and Dibrugarh was one of the most important river ports of the region, so the voyage revives a historic trade route.

The Ganga is a different national waterway and is not the river named here, so option A is wrong. The Barak flows through the Barak valley of Assam but is not the river on which this voyage sails, so option B is wrong. The Mahanadi flows in eastern India and has no connection with this shipment, so option D is wrong. The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and the Inland Waterways Authority of India are organising the flag-off on this Brahmaputra route.

The correct answer is Assam Petro-Chemicals Limited, generally shortened to APCL. The methanol that sails from the Bogibeel Terminal at Dibrugarh to Pangaon Port in Dhaka has been produced by this company, and its Chairman, Bikul Ch. Deka, is among those expected at the ceremony. APCL is also one of the organisers of the event, along with the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, the Inland Waterways Authority of India and the Government of Assam.

Numaligarh Refinery Limited, Oil India Limited and the Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation are all industrial undertakings connected with Assam, but none of them is named as the producer of this consignment, so options B, C and D are wrong. The cargo is specifically described as methanol of Assam Petro-Chemicals Limited, carried over National Waterway-2 and the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route.