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Port
of Colombo
The
Port of Colombo, the largest and busiest port in Sri Lanka as well as
in South Asia, is located on the south-western shores on the Kelani
River; it serves as an important terminal in Asia due to its
strategic location on the Indian Ocean trade routes.
During
the 1980s, the port underwent rapid modernization and gained a
capacity of 4.1 million TEUs. Today’s upgrade will increase the
ports capacity to 12 million TEUs by the end of 2014.
The
new port entrance channel and breakwater has been designed to allow a
further extension northwards which would raise capacity by a further
4 million TEUs.
Between
70 and 80 per cent of the TEUs handled by the port are transhipped to
other ports in the region.
The
Port City of Colombo is being constructed on reclaimed land on the
southern extremity of the port. Colombo port includes the naval base
for Sri Lanka Navy’s Western Fleet.
Galle
Regional Port
Galle
Regional Port is primarily used for leisure purposes. The yacht
facilities provided at the port were damaged during the 2004 tsunami
and the current development is to provide a fully-fledged Yacht
Marina.
This
development of the Port of Galle as a tourist destination is designed
to act as a catalyst to economic growth of Southern Region of Sri
Lanka.
Phase
I A of the project consists of development of basic facilities of
Yacht Marina with berthing facility for 50 yachts of 15m in length up
to 3m draft.
Phase
I B of the project will include extensions to yacht berthing
facilities to accommodate 42 more yachts and facilities for yacht
repair. Galle Regional Port is the only Sri Lankan port that provides
facilities for pleasure yachts and is recognized by the International
Yacht Society as one of the world's best attractions. Piracy in the
Indian Ocean has seen a recent and dramatic fall in yacht arrivals as
yacht owners avoid the region.
Port
of Hambantota
Hambantota
Port, opened on 18 November 2010, is operated by the Sri Lanka Ports
Authority. Construction of the port began in January 2008 and is
planned to be Sri Lanka’s largest port, after the Port of Colombo.
The
first phase of the port project provides bunkering, ship repair, ship
building, and crew change facilities, later phases will raise
capacity of the port up to 20 million TEUs per year.
Further
port extension inland will produce significant fill which will be
used to create an island for residential use to the southwest of the
port.
Port
of Kankesanthurai
The
Kankesanthurai port and its berthing piers were extensively damaged
during the tsunami in 2004 and Cyclone Nisha in 2008. Besides damage
to the existing infrastructure there were sunken ships inside the
harbour in several locations which were a major hazard to the safe
vessel movement.
India
and Sri Lanka signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the
development of the Port of Kankesanthurai, surveying and wreck
removal. The development of the port will lower transit times of
goods from India, Bangladesh and other neighbouring countries.
Oluvil
The
government of Sri Lanka, to give impetus to economic development in
the Eastern region, approved the build of a port at Oluvil. Under the
“Nagenahira Navodaya” Programme, the port will form the
south-eastern link in the developing chain of coastal harbours in the
country and will provide more convenient and cost effective access to
and from the south-eastern region for goods and cargo originating on
the west coast.
The
project comprises the construction of a commercial harbour and a
basin for the fishing vessels. The port suffers from siltation and
has yet to become fully operational.
Trincomalee
Trincomalee
harbour is the second best natural harbour in the world and the
available water and land area is about 10 times that of the Port of
Colombo. Trincomalee is tentatively identified to cater for bulk and
break bulk cargo and port related industrial activities including
heavy industries, tourism and agriculture etc. At present SLPA is in
the process of re-developing the por
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