{"id":5594,"date":"2018-01-18T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2018\/01\/18\/india-extends-credit-for-kankesanthurai-harbour\/"},"modified":"2018-01-18T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T13:32:00","slug":"india-extends-credit-for-kankesanthurai-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2018\/01\/18\/india-extends-credit-for-kankesanthurai-harbour\/","title":{"rendered":"India extends credit for Kankesanthurai harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Ports and Shipping Ministry believes rehabilitating KKS Port will encourage trade, both domestic and regionally, by promoting shipping links.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fresh assistance of $45.27m would be used for the remaining two phases involving works relating to the rehabilitation of the breakwater and existing pier,\u201d Exim\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConstruction of a new pier for commercial cargo handling, installation of port infrastructure facilities will also be undertaken under this credit line facility,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lanka Ports Authority supervised by India\u2019s Ports and Shipping Ministry will implement the project.<\/p>\n<p>Four previous phases including preliminary hydrographic survey, geotechnical investigation, preparation of a detailed project report and wreck removal and disposal dredging have already been completed with grants from the Indian government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has extended a $45.27m credit line to make Kankesanthurai (KKS) Port in northern Sri Lanka a viable commercial port, India\u2019s Export-Import (Exim) Bank said in a press statement.<\/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":[25],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594","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=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}