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CMHI, Aitken Spence and SLPA will realize a new container terminal in the port of Columbus
Agreement A.P. Møller-Mærsk - Merchants Group Lowers - Guangzhou Port Group Co. for the third phase of the container terminal of the port of Nansha
September 23, 2011
The partner of the consortium Colombo International Container Terminals Ltd., that he is participated with 55% from China Merchants Holdings (International) Co. (CMHI) (group Lowers Merchants Group), with 30% from the group Sinhalese Aitken Spence and with 15% from the Sri Chain plate Port Authority (SLPA), has signed an agreement with the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) in order to realize and to manage Colombo South Container Terminal of the port of Columbus. The agreement is of the type Build, Operated and Transfer (BOT) and has a duration 35-year-old.
The project will be realized in two phases, of which the first it will be completed at the beginning of 2013, and previews an investment of beyond 500 million dollars. The new container terminal Sinhalese will be equipped of four docks for altogether total 1,200 linear meters of approaches with depth of the backdrop of -18 meters and 58 hectares of storage areas. The annual ability to traffic of the system will be pairs to 2,4 million teu.
While shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk has signed an agreement with the Chinese group Lowers Merchants Group, than work in the fields of harbour and street infrastructures (also through branch CMHI), of the finance and the pieces of real estate, and with the harbour society public Chinese Guangzhou Port Group Co. in order to invest in the development of the third phase of the container terminal of the port of Nansha (Guangzhou).
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