{"id":156466,"date":"2026-05-29T16:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=156466"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:12:01","slug":"eu-sri-lanka-forum-discusses-maritime-logistics-hub-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/05\/29\/eu-sri-lanka-forum-discusses-maritime-logistics-hub-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"EU-Sri Lanka forum discusses maritime, logistics hub potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Recently, the SLPA Chairman made an important presentation to the German delegation regarding port expansion plans, but Trincomalee appeared to have been left out of the overall development formula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/economynext.com\/eu-sri-lanka-forum-discusses-maritime-logistics-hub-potential-273642\/\">EU-Sri Lanka forum discusses maritime, logistics hub potential | EconomyNext<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government should clearly clarify whether India\u2019s strategic interests and existing involvement in Trincomalee are influencing this position or creating a caveat regarding future development initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regards<br><br>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Recently, the SLPA Chairman made an important presentation to the German delegation regarding port expansion plans, but Trincomalee appeared to have been left out of the overall development formula. EU-Sri Lanka forum discusses maritime, logistics hub potential | EconomyNext The Government should clearly clarify whether India\u2019s strategic interests and existing involvement in [&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-156466","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\/156466","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=156466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156467,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156466\/revisions\/156467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}