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“Private, foreign participation must for port development”
Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
Hambantota Port will pose the biggest competition to the Colombo Port and Sri Lanka will have to involve private and foreign terminal operators for Port related development State Minister of Urban Development, Coast Conservation, Waste Disposal and Community Cleanliness, Dr. Nalaka Godahewa said.
He was speaking at an Advocata hosted panel discussion on: “The Future of Ports Development in Sri Lanka ‘’ at BMICH last Friday.
He said that the earlier Rajapaksa government had two master plans when they planned Hambantota Port, where Colombo was to focus as a trading Port (transshipment and containerized cargo) and Hambantota for export and re-export as an industrial city. “But now Hambantota Port will be doing both these areas and they are planning for containerization in a few years.”