{"id":79948,"date":"2018-08-06T13:43:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T20:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=79948"},"modified":"2018-08-06T13:43:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T20:43:18","slug":"sri-lankas-hambantota-port-looks-to-become-leading-port-in-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/08\/06\/sri-lankas-hambantota-port-looks-to-become-leading-port-in-indian-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Hambantota port looks to become leading port in Indian Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"social-sharethis-post\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"social-sharethis-post\">Colombo, Aug 6 (Xinhua) \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s southern Hambantota port is gearing up to become a leading port in the Indian Ocean region, a port official said on Monday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>CEO of the Hambantota International Port Services (HIPS) Ravindra Jayawickreme said the location of the Hambantota port had always been extremely advantageous as it was located just a little less than half a nautical mile from the sea lanes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Sri Lanka\u2019s Hambantota port looks to become leading port in Indian Ocean\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Hambantota-Port-Photo-Xinhua.jpg?fit=620%2C414&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sri Lanka\u2019s Hambantota port looks to become leading port in Indian Ocean\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But what was necessary to push this into the limelight, was the right partnerships and this is what China Merchants Port Holdings brought to the table,\u201d Jayawickreme said.<\/p>\n<p>China Merchants Port Holdings (CM Port) entered into partnership with the Sri Lanka Ports Authority in July last year to develop and manage the port.<\/p>\n<p>Jayawickreme added that the Hambantota port was being developed into a multipurpose port, which will provide a variety of services such as handling containers, break bulk, roll-on\/roll-off, passenger, oil, bulk terminal, gas and project cargo.<\/p>\n<p>The port is slated to become one of a kind, as it will be the only port in the country designed to handle the full gamut of services in the maritime and logistics area, he explained.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Aug 6 (Xinhua) \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s southern Hambantota port is gearing up to become a leading port in the Indian Ocean region, a port official said on Monday. CEO of the Hambantota International Port Services (HIPS) Ravindra Jayawickreme said the location of the Hambantota port had always been extremely advantageous as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79948","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=79948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}