{"id":70223,"date":"2017-10-01T15:40:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T22:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=70223"},"modified":"2017-10-01T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T22:40:32","slug":"portcity-and-accelerated-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/10\/01\/portcity-and-accelerated-development\/","title":{"rendered":"PORTCITY AND ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Everyday I pass thtough Galle Face along the Port City Development and note that work is steadily streaming ahead .I wonder whether we will not \u00a0alive long \u00a0to see the entire devlopment after completion as such development \u00a0will take at least 10-15 years to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>As a marine engineer and a investment \u00a0promoter I would like to suggest following to the decision\u00a0 makers of the port city development .<\/p>\n<p>Along the southern boundary of the development \u00a0\u00a0a Marina is envisaged for yachts and leisure boat owners to patronize Colombo .These owners and tourists are cuurntly using Maldivian waters ,and it will be quite easy to entice t them to come to Colombo ,if we can accelerate Marina Devlopment section .<\/p>\n<p>Break waters are bult already and few mooring paltforms and some infrausructure\u00a0 in the Marina Section will be an attractive location for Yacht owners .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 223px;\" width=\"687\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"325\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-70224\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sarath0110171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sarath0110171.jpg 722w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sarath0110171-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"325\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-70225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sarath0110172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sarath0110172.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sarath0110172-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Mutwal a repair and maintenance facility for yachts is being completed with a state of the art yacht docking device , which will augment development of the Marina concept<\/p>\n<p>What we need to do is to ask Chinese to develop the Marina as a priority and update the regulatory aspects to make the yahct owners comfortable to arrive and park with minimum bureacratci procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Next door to Marina ,there are few five \u00a0star hotels and bars and clubs which they can patronize .These facilities are not available in Maldives except in resorts.<\/p>\n<p>Parallelly, Megapolis should invite local shipbuilders to build and operate ferry and passenger service to start from Galle Face Marina \u00a0to sail to Galle and Kalpitiya.<\/p>\n<p>If Casino moguls \u00a0with Hayleys can introduce a floating casino to oparate while sailing ,I am sure all the gambling Chinese will come to Colombo<\/p>\n<p>This is the development which need urgent attention and the next three years will be crucial to the government to show some tangible results to people.<\/p>\n<p>We are sailing in troubled ecomonic-waters and we need to come out .<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath obeysekera Everyday I pass thtough Galle Face along the Port City Development and note that work is steadily streaming ahead .I wonder whether we will not \u00a0alive long \u00a0to see the entire devlopment after completion as such development \u00a0will take at least 10-15 years to achieve. As a marine engineer and a investment [&hellip;]<\/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-70223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70223","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=70223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}