{"id":52459,"date":"2016-02-29T12:11:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52459"},"modified":"2016-02-29T05:10:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T12:10:23","slug":"etca-and-ship-building-indian-contribution-%e0%b6%bd%e0%b6%82%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%8f%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%9a%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%93-%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%90%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%8a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/29\/etca-and-ship-building-indian-contribution-%e0%b6%bd%e0%b6%82%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%8f%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%9a%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%93-%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%90%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%8a\/","title":{"rendered":"ETCA AND SHIP BUILDING \u2013INDIAN CONTRIBUTION \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u0dbd\u0d82\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dda\u0daf\u0dd3 \u0db1\u0dd0\u0dc0\u0dca \u0dc4\u0daf\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1 \u0d89\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0da7\u0dad\u0dca \u0daf\u0dd9\u0dba\u0dd2\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u0dbd\u0d82\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dda\u0daf\u0dd3 \u0db1\u0dd0\u0dc0\u0dca \u0dc4\u0daf\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1 \u0d89\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0da7\u0dad\u0dca \u0daf\u0dd9\u0dba\u0dd2<\/a>\u2026\u00a0<\/span>News Items in Sinhala Paper .\u00a0<\/span>Where and how ?\u00a0<\/span>Trinco is ideal for ship building and only area in along the coastal belt towards Sampur\u00a0<\/span>Hambantota already promised to Chinese and they are doing a feasibility study\u00a0<\/span>Government should elaborate their plans so that we can advise<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I am a ship builder hence I am convinced that despite being an Island with costal belt right around we have not been able to capitalize on ship building.<\/p>\n

Neil Marine,Blue star ( now owned by an Indian Company based in Dubai-Solas) north west ,Danushska etc are small scale fibre glass fishing boat builders\u00a0 who service fishing community<\/p>\n

We also have a Belgian person who is fighting for\u00a0 survival in building Yachts in MIrissa<\/p>\n

Government is not giving any support to them except milking them by way of custom duty and vat etc<\/p>\n

Solar has got a large order from Indian Coast Guard to build 85 numbers\u00a0 coast guard boats and recently signed an agreement with Maldivian Coat Guard for\u00a0 three more<\/p>\n

They hardly build anything for Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

Then we have Colombo Dockyard which has moved to build larger vessels for Oil Industry and now no more for Sri Lankan Customers .They had an expert team of Naval Architects who were forced to retire at 55 (which is the peak of all expertise knowledge) .They all went to Dubai Dry Docks \/Bahrain Ashrae Shipyard in Bahraib,Oman and Qatar and few to Singapore<\/p>\n

These experts have spent over 10 years and Middle East .They do not keep them after 65\u00a0 and some of them migrated Canada Australia and most want to return to Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

I meet them often and they are eagerly waiting for Sri Lanka to re commence marine industry and ship building so that they can return home.<\/p>\n

I am not talking about welders and fitters as after 65 they may not be that productive who\u00a0 return and start three wheeler business ,grocery stores and even running rice mills .What a waste !<\/p>\n

Colombo Dockyard does not want to re-invest in the ship building industry even though they were asked to invest in Hambantota which they declined<\/p>\n

Now Chinese are quite keen to open a ship yard in Hamabantota and I have decided to extent my fullest support and\u00a0 input ,<\/p>\n

Now Japanese\u00a0 want to build\u00a0 harbour cranes for Japanese\u00a0 and to make money but not to develop our ship building Industry ,They import designs from Singapore ,and sadly our Naval Architecture is not developing<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka Navy is going to retire many naval rating in next few years on retirement after over 20 year service ,we need to employ them<\/p>\n

Otherwise they may tend to get involved in various activities\u00a0 not very good for the society .<\/p>\n

I personally like to hire ex-navy ratings as they are quite disciplined and hard working .<\/p>\n

Then the North has many able women and men \u2013ex tigers who need some work hence developing ship building Industry is timely<\/p>\n

What government can do is get down Indian managers, marking experts and expert welders and fitters under ETCA to Sri Lanka, providing that we open up small scale shipyards right around the Island and train our boys by working\u00a0 with them<\/p>\n

We have over 20 fishery harbours now very productive, can be ideal locations to base ship building Industry<\/p>\n

Sad situation is people like ourselves and Ex Marine experts are not be even consulted how to develop the Industry except that, they want to open our labour market to Indians for Ship Building without having any plans ,We wanted to develop Beruwala as a location and CEA is blocking with no tangible reason<\/p>\n

We have to give Pioneer Status\u201d to ship building Industry and allow importation of raw materials duty free and VAT free Then\u00a0 with cheap labour we can be competitive<\/p>\n

We can build multi day fishing boats\u00a0 with Cold Room\u00a0 and freezing facilities ,catch Tuna and export .Now Chinese ,Thaiwanese and Japanse catch our Tuna and export<\/p>\n

FINALLY ,I WANT ELBAORATE THE FACT THAT ,RATHER THAN CREATING FEAR psychosis we should indentfy what labour we want from india ,we should have forum of experts in the field and disucss what we lack and allow the selected experts to come<\/p>\n

One industralist who is quite nationlistic, SAID once that under etca we will have har dressors and their wives and kids and even butchers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera \u0dbd\u0d82\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dda\u0daf\u0dd3 \u0db1\u0dd0\u0dc0\u0dca \u0dc4\u0daf\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1 \u0d89\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0da7\u0dad\u0dca \u0daf\u0dd9\u0dba\u0dd2\u2026\u00a0News Items in Sinhala Paper .\u00a0Where and how ?\u00a0Trinco is ideal for ship building and only area in along the coastal belt towards Sampur\u00a0Hambantota already promised to Chinese and they are doing a feasibility study\u00a0Government should elaborate their plans so that we can advise I am a ship […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52459","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=52459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}