Mongla Port the second biggest seaport, 48 km south of Khulna town. The port was created at first around 18 km up at Chalna, which was opened to outside vessels as a safe haven on 11 December 1950. The dock was moved to Mongla in 1954 as the place could oblige maritime vessels with more prominent drafts. The port of Mongla had since quite a while ago held its name Chalna. Mongla is arranged on the conjunction of the waterways pasur and Mongla at mouza Selabunia of rampal upazila of bagerhat locale. Amid the Pakistan time frame, the organization of the port was under a port executive, whose primary office was at Khulna.
Maritime vessels up to a draft of 25 feet could billet vessels here and those with a draft up to 17 feet were permitted to stay. Albeit genuinely little, Mongla was a bustling port before and now and again, around two dozen maritime vessels were discovered tied down here. Afterward, particularly since 1980, the port frequently stayed shut in light of the fact that it lost appropriate profundity required for the maritime boats and each time it was revived in the wake of digging. At present, around 400 boats billet at the port in a year and the port every year handles around 3 million MT of imports and fares. The port has 11 breakwaters, 7 shades for stacking and emptying of merchandise and 8 distribution centers. It utilizes 12 swinging moorings or drifting berthing places in more profound areas in the stream. The Mongla Port Authority that now controls the port developed a rest house for the sailors at a place named Heron Point.
The port has exchange joins with every single significant port of the world, despite the fact that vessels landing here are for the most part from ports of Asia, the Middle East, Australia, Europe and North America and the boats seldom come to Mongla from the nations of Latin America or Africa. Notwithstanding advancement of imports and fares of the nation, the port adds to improvement of numerous businesses and exchanging houses in encompassing spots and alongside this, of new frameworks and openings for work. Numerous neighborhood individuals are working in the port straightforwardly in stacking and emptying vessels.