{"id":102561,"date":"2020-05-19T16:08:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T23:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102561"},"modified":"2020-05-19T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T23:08:16","slug":"crew-change-of-ships-in-galle-and-colombo-ports-why-not-trinco-and-hambantota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/19\/crew-change-of-ships-in-galle-and-colombo-ports-why-not-trinco-and-hambantota\/","title":{"rendered":"Crew change of ships in Galle and Colombo ports why not Trinco and Hambantota ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pressrelease.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pressrelease.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pressrelease-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When reading The the attached communication issued by the President\u2019s office I wonder why they cannot \u00a0 use the other two ports as well<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We proposed to develop Trinco as a location for oil rig lay-up facilities and requested the government to restructure quarantine procedure to accommodate the crew changes of rigs and tankers\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a source of a large amount of firearm currency\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Idling hotels can be offered to the crew to combine a holiday and self-quarantine at a premium price\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not sure why Hamabantota is overlooked when Mattaka\nairport is just close by ??<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can they look into this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera When reading The the attached communication issued by the President\u2019s office I wonder why they cannot \u00a0 use the other two ports as well We proposed to develop Trinco as a location for oil rig lay-up facilities and requested the government to restructure quarantine procedure to accommodate the crew changes of rigs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}