Ruhul Amin Sikder, a spokesperson for the Bangladesh Inland Container Depots Association (BICDA), stated that the depot covered about 30 acres.[12][16] The ICD had a capacity of 6,500 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), and was holding about 4,300 TEUs[lower-alpha 1] worth of containers on the day of the fire.[16] Many of these were for the garment industry and contained hazardous chemicals used within it, including hydrogen peroxide.[17]