Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2011-09-28

Annual Report of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) for the year 2009

- several development projects were undertaken by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority during the year under review. Some of them are as follows:

* Colombo Ports Expansion Project - this is jointly funded by the Asian Development Bank and the SLPA and the estimated cost of the project is US $330 million. The total duration of the project is 04 years and is scheduled to be completed in April 2012. An approximate length of 1520 M of breakwater construction has already been completed.
* Hambantota Port Development Project - Phase I of the project consists of 2 breakwaters, excavation of 17M deep harbour basin, dredging of 210M wide entrance channel, construction of service berth, general purpose berth, oil berth, roads and buildings. The total estimated cost is US$361 million and is jointly funded by the Exim Bank of China and the SLPA.
* Oluvil Port Project - the project consists of 2 rubble mound breakwaters as the Northern Breakwater of length 550 M and the Southern Breakwater of length 773M which enclose a total water area of 16 ha for the first stage. The project is financed by DANIDA and the total cost is about Euro 46.1 million.
* Ports of Galle, Trincomalee, Point Pedro and Kankasanthurai are also to be developed.