{"id":7095,"date":"2007-06-01T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2007\/06\/01\/death-of-domestic-for-colombo\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:30:07","slug":"death-of-domestic-for-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/asia\/death-of-domestic-for-colombo\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of domestic for Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, transhipment traffic at the port grew by 10%, while import\/export traffic rose by 5%.<\/p>\n<p>Growth, particularly from India, but also in China, will see even greater use of the port by transhipped boxes in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>It is therefore being argued that new outlets should be found for wholly domestic traffic. In related news, the Asian Development Bank has made available a $300m loan to fund expansion of the port.<\/p>\n<p>The public-private-partnership will require total investment of $780m, with the government providing $180m, while the private sector will stump up the remainder. Project completion is slated for 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Public-sector funds will finance construction of the breakwater, dredging, superstructure relocation and construction of ancillary facilities, while the private sector will concentrate on building a new container terminal and equipping it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The association of Sri Lanka\u2019 s Clearing and Forwarding Agents is lobbying the government with a view to moving all domestic containers away from Colombo port as a means of easing congestion.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7097,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions\/7097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7095"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}