{"id":4778,"date":"2011-05-18T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2011\/05\/18\/colombo-seeks-interim-capacity-solutions\/"},"modified":"2011-05-18T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T10:35:00","slug":"colombo-seeks-interim-capacity-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2011\/05\/18\/colombo-seeks-interim-capacity-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombo seeks interim capacity solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response, the Sri Lanka Port Authority (SLPA) is working on interim measures to accommodate the growth at the terminals it controls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the short run we are making arrangements to accommodate the growth,\u201d said Priyath Wickrema, chairman of SLPA. \u201cThe port-wide growth is projected to be 10-12% this year, but SLPA, is expecting a 22% growth year-on-year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Wickrema, the SPLA plans include making full use of an under-utilised 200-metre feeder berth.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cAlso, we are replacing old cranes and yard equipment; under this programme we are bringing in four super post-panamax gantry cranes, five RTGs and 50 yard tractors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to this we are adding two further super post-panamax gantry cranes with 15 RTGs to enhance the efficiency. We hope that we should be able to cater to the increasing demand with these measures in the short run.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lankan port of Colombo is facing major capacity constraints after its throughput grew by 19% to 4.1mill teu in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778","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=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}