{"id":3074,"date":"2008-01-30T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2008\/01\/30\/colombo-south-contract-still-on-hold\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:28:08","slug":"colombo-south-contract-still-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2008\/01\/30\/colombo-south-contract-still-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombo South contract still on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction of the terminal, for which the Aitken Spence\/PSA consortium is the highest bidder, still has not been approved.<\/p>\n<p>The 70:30 joint venture bid a combined $183m for the contract, involving construction of a 2.4m teu capacity container terminal, scheduled to open in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Colombo Port Expansion Project is the largest project undertaken by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority. It is a government build and own harbour facility with private-public partnership on terminals. <\/p>\n<p>The SLPA had said it expected to award the construction tender by July 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of the new port infrastructure and the first three terminals has been put at $1.2bn, which will be partly financed by an ADB facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Sri Lanka continues to drag its heels on development of a container terminal at Colombo South port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3076,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions\/3076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}