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Today in the port of Columbus is inaugurated the first phase of the South Container Terminal
Completed 400 linear meters of dock with -18 backdrops meters
August 5, 2013
Today in the port of Columbus the president Sri Lankan, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has inaugurated the first phase of the South Container Terminal, the new terminal for containers managed from Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT), joint venture participated with the 85% from the Chinese group Lowers Merchants Holdings (International) Co. (CIMC) and with the remaining 15% from Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA)( the 23of september and 14 November 2011).
In occasion of the inauguration ceremony the president of SLPA, Priyath Bandu Wickrama, has emphasized the role of the new landing place which hub harbour competitive regarding the other main ports of the Asian south-east: "previously - he has explained - the Indians of the coast oriental had to send their goods to Singapore if they wanted to embark them on a ship mother directed towards the West. Now these great ships will pass for Indian Columbus and will embark the goods".
terminal CICT is inserted in the new harbour area Colombo South Harbour who occupies a surface of approximately 600 hectares. With the first phase of the CICT meters and an area of storage of ten hectares are realized 400 linear meters of dock with -18 backdrops. The second phase, that the next December will come complete, includes the realization of others 200 linear meters of dock and the widening to 20 hectares of the storage areas, while the third and last phase - that it will be completed in April 2014 - previews the extension of the total line of dock to 1,200 meters and the widening of the areas of storage to 58 hectares. The plan of the new Colombo South Harbour area previews the realization of others two terminal both with a line of dock of 1.200 linear meters: draft of the East Container Terminal, that it will be inaugurated in the next weeks and that will be operated by the SLPA, and of West Container Terminal, that will be realized in the next anuses and will be assigned in management through contest.
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Today in the port of Columbus the president Sri Lankan, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has inaugurated the first phase of the South Container Terminal, the new terminal for containers managed from Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT), joint venture participated with the 85% from the Chinese group Lowers Merchants Holdings (International) Co. (CIMC) and with the remaining 15% from Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA)
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- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
