{"id":7110,"date":"2009-03-04T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2009\/03\/04\/bids-again-for-columbo\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:30:15","slug":"bids-again-for-columbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/asia\/bids-again-for-columbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bids &#8211; again &#8211; for Columbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposals have been called from international or local firms or consortia on a design, build and manage basis of the new container terminal which is being built west of the existing port.<\/p>\n<p>All of Sri Lanka&#8217;s top conglomerates submitted proposals a year ago when the bids were first called, but disagreements and controversy meant the bidding round was cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The new port is designed to accommodate vessels with a length of 400 metres and 16 metre draught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka Ports Authority has issued a long-awaited call for bids for a container terminal in a new deep draught port being built next to the existing Colombo harbour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7110","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\/7110","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=7110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7112,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7110\/revisions\/7112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7110"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}