{"id":1695,"date":"2010-11-25T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2010\/11\/25\/sri-lankas-new-port-opens-early\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:32:16","slug":"sri-lankas-new-port-opens-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/asia\/sri-lankas-new-port-opens-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s new port opens early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The port is part of a program of economic reconstruction by Sri Lanka\u2019s government, following the three decade-long struggle against the Tamil Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>Initially the port\u2019s volumes will be from cement imports and transhipment, with plans for a gas terminal coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>Although the port, with its 1km quay, is to be operated by the Sri Lanka Port Authority, it was constructed by the China Harbour Engineering Company for a reported cost of around $360m. Chinese influence is familiar in the country, as China Merchants Holdings International Co recently teamed up with Aitken Spence to build a $450m container terminal in Colombo port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankas new deep sea port at Hambantota, on the south coast of the island, has been officially opened almost half a year ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}