{"id":147419,"date":"2025-01-17T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T22:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147419"},"modified":"2025-01-17T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T22:00:34","slug":"overcrowding-in-colombo-port-and-under-utilisation-of-magampura-hambantota-international-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/01\/17\/overcrowding-in-colombo-port-and-under-utilisation-of-magampura-hambantota-international-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcrowding in Colombo Port and Under Utilisation of Magampura ( Hambantota) International Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Chula Rajapaksse MNZM FRCP\/FRACP Wellington NZ<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Dear Editor,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is quite frustrating to read of the continuing need. for ships to stay in ques to have them servied, This takes my mind back immediately to 1957\/58 period when the LSSP controlled&nbsp;trade unions brought Colombo port to a stand still during Mr SWRD Bandaranayakes premiership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However now the country has a brand new harbour in Hambantota completely underutilised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a perfect opportunity for the New Govt. to begin utilising this underutilised resource so that efficiency in both ports could be used with country never being held to a ransom again like this.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Chula Rajapaksse MNZM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FRCP\/FRACP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wellington NZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chula Rajapaksse MNZM FRCP\/FRACP Wellington NZ Dear Editor, It is quite frustrating to read of the continuing need. for ships to stay in ques to have them servied, This takes my mind back immediately to 1957\/58 period when the LSSP controlled&nbsp;trade unions brought Colombo port to a stand still during Mr SWRD Bandaranayakes premiership. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147419","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=147419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}