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Concor, John Keells, APM Terminals and Maersk Line in contest for the development of the East Container Terminal of Columbus
The project previews an investment of 500 million dollars
October 10, 2016
The logistic group Indian Container Corporation of India (Concor) has constituted a consortium with the cingalese John Keells Holdings, with terminalista society Dutch APM Terminals of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, and with the company of navigation Maersk Line, that it takes part of the same Danish group, with the scope to upgrade and to manage the terminal for East containers Container Terminal (ECT) of the port of Columbus, project for which 6th june Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has invited to introduce expressions of interest for the phase of prequalification of the contest. The Indian daily paper "The Hindu has announced Business Linens".
The ECT is one of the two container terminal of the managed port of Columbus from the SLPA, while others two terminal for containers of the cingalese port of call are operated by private. Currently SLPA, with an investment of 80 million dollars, has completed the first phase of construction of the ECT, than therefore it has a dock of 440 linear meters with a depth of the -18 backdrop meters and areas for 20 hectares. The concessionaire will have the task to complete the project, equipping the terminal of a line of total dock of 1,2 linear kilometers and of a annual ability to traffic pairs to 2,4 million teu. The SLPA demands moreover that the new concessionaire can convey on the ulterior terminal quotas traffic of transhipment adding to an organic increase of the enlivened traffic.
The expiration date for the presentation of the expressions of interest, originally fixed in order on 21 July, is postponed on 31 August. SLPA has specified that the project has a value of 500 million dollars and that probably the concession contract will have a duration 35-year-old. The project will be realized through a public-private partnership of which Sri Lanka Ports Authority it will stop a participation pairs to 15%.
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The logistic group Indian Container Corporation of India (Concor) has constituted a consortium with the cingalese John Keells Holdings, with terminalista society Dutch APM Terminals of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, and with the company of navigation Maersk Line, that it takes part of the same Danish group, with the scope to upgrade and to manage the terminal for East containers Container Terminal (ECT) of the port of Columbus, project for which 6th june Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has invited to introduce expressions of interest for the phase of prequalification of the contest. The Indian daily paper "The Hindu has announced Business Linens".
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
