{"id":86379,"date":"2019-03-14T14:48:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T21:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=86379"},"modified":"2019-03-14T14:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T21:51:51","slug":"sri-lanka-to-purchase-cranes-from-china-to-handle-larger-container-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/03\/14\/sri-lanka-to-purchase-cranes-from-china-to-handle-larger-container-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to purchase cranes from China to handle larger container ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"jeg_featured featured_image\"><em style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-content no-share\">\n<div class=\"content-inner \">\n<div>\n<p>Colombo, March 14 (newsin.asia) \u2013 The state owned Sri Lanka Ports Authority, on Thursday said that it would purchase three ship-to-shore gantry cranes from China for its deep water terminal at the Colombo Port in order to handle bigger container ships this year.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0The Government Information Department said that the cabinet of ministers, had this week approved a proposal by Minister of Ports, Shipping and Southern Development, Sagala Ratnayaka to buy the cranes for the Jaya Container Terminal from China\u2019s Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company Limited.<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-jnews-1140x570 wp-post-image lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ColomboPort-1024x570.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, 750px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ColomboPort-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ColomboPort-254x141.jpg 254w\" alt=\"Sri Lanka, very interesting spot for the maritime industry, says Norway\" width=\"604\" height=\"336\" data-src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ColomboPort-1024x570.jpg\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ColomboPort-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ColomboPort-254x141.jpg 254w\" data-expand=\"700\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company Limited, known as ZPMC, is the world\u2019s largest container handling equipment manufacturer.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sri Lanka\u2019s Port of Colombo, last year, was ranked the world\u2019s top port with the highest container growth.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It consists of the Jaya Container Terminal of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority, South Asia Gateway Terminal of the John Keells Holdings and Colombo International Container Terminal of China\u2019s CM Ports.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 14 (newsin.asia) \u2013 The state owned Sri Lanka Ports Authority, on Thursday said that it would purchase three ship-to-shore gantry cranes from China for its deep water terminal at the Colombo Port in order to handle bigger container ships this year. \u00a0The Government Information Department said that the cabinet of ministers, [&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-86379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86379","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=86379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}