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by Suresh Perera
Sri Lanka has averted a major fuel crisis by overhauling the Single Point Buoy Mooring (SPBM), which was virtually crumbling as it had not been refurbished since being installed in 2010.
It would have spelled disaster if this offshore facility had collapsed as it’s the key link that handles the transfer of liquid cargo from oil tankers to the Muthurajawala oil tank farm, which meets 60% of the country’s demand for petrol, diesel and jet fuel, a senior official said.
The grueling overhaul, described as a “remarkable feat” by Sri Lankan engineers and technical officers, was completed without any costly foreign expertise, which translated into a substantial additional foreign exchange saving for the country, he stressed.
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International Construction Consortium (ICC), an award winning multi-sector contractor, announced that all the apartments in the proposed Mount Clifford Residencies at Homagama have been sold out even before the completion of the project. It’s an achievement in the backdrop of the external pressures faced by the construction industry due to the pandemic, ICC stressed, while […]