{"id":149611,"date":"2025-05-17T15:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=149611"},"modified":"2025-05-17T15:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:05:04","slug":"need-to-attract-fdi-by-developing-offshore-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/05\/17\/need-to-attract-fdi-by-developing-offshore-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Need to attract FDI by developing offshore sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Need to think out of the box to attract FDI and offshore sector development\u00a0This is the single point mooring buoy purchased by Ceylon petroleum corporation in 1986\/87<br>Colombo Dockyard offered to assemble the mooring buoy in Cololmbo Dockyard on behalf of SBM\/ IMODCO but due to unknown reasons CPC paid higher price and imported it\u00a0<br>We made a model in timber to ascertain assembly and welding on Licence and offered to build it\u00a0<br>That was 40 years ago\u00a0<br>We were to start offshore sector construction in 1985 since I returned from Norway after working in offshore industry\u00a0<br>Since that time we could not make a break through to start except few rigs repaired after docking of rigs\u00a0<br>Now it is 2025 and it is high time that part of Trincomalee Harbour is identified as a potential location\u00a0<br>Such type of oil rigs are brought to Trincomalee for lay up\u00a0<br>Sri Lanka should invite our own blue chip companies to invest and build workshop suitable to maintain equipment of rigs or assemble steel modules and re install using floating cranes<br>Such a high value industry which can generate much needed foreign exchange and support retaining of skilled youngsters leaving the country<br><br>Clappenburg area in Trincomalee where local company with possible collaboration of foreign investor is already earmarked<br>Both minister of industries and shipping with SLPA should take the lead now\u00a0<br><br>Over to you President and ministers of Industry and shipping and SLPA\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regards<br><br>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Need to think out of the box to attract FDI and offshore sector development\u00a0This is the single point mooring buoy purchased by Ceylon petroleum corporation in 1986\/87Colombo Dockyard offered to assemble the mooring buoy in Cololmbo Dockyard on behalf of SBM\/ IMODCO but due to unknown reasons CPC paid higher price and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149611","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\/149611","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=149611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}