Colombo Port Set To Enter Top 10 Busiest Ports in the World!

[Skyline]

Even though Sri Lanka is a small and developing country, it currently has one of the busiest container port and largest harbour in the world. The Colombo port in Sri Lanka which is currently ranked as the 29th busiest port in the world in Wikipedia’s list of world’s busiest container ports.

However as you can see in the photos here which I took recently, a mega expansion project is going on at the Colombo port. This Colombo port expansion project is going to it 3 times as big as it is now! That means when this port expansion project is over (within 2 years), Colombo port will be set to become one of the 10 largest and busiest ports in the world!

According to the previously mentioned Wikipedia world’s busiest port list, Colombo port handled about 4 million TEUs (or Twenty-foot equivalent units of containers) in 2010. That made it the 29th busiest port in the world. This itself is a impressive record for a country like small Sri Lanka, considering that world famous and busy ports like New York City (ranked world’s 19th) handled only 5.3 million TEUs in 2010.

When the Colombo Port expansion project (called the Colombo South Port) is complete the Colombo Port will have the ability to handle more then 12 million TEUs annually. According to current world port statistic that will make Colombo Port able to claim the 9th or 10th place among the top 10 busiest ports in the world.


Above Pic Shows construction work going on 24/7 at Colombo Port expansion project. The strange shaped objects in the foreground are the giant concrete boulders that are used to fill the sea, reclaim land and build the new quays of the port.

S0 look forward very soon for the day our port will beat world famous ports like Rotterdam (11.1 million TEUs, Busiest Port in Europe) and Los Angeles Port (6.5 million TEUs, busiest port in North America). Not bad for a small 3rd world country no?

Colombo Port Set To Enter Top 10 Busiest Ports in the World! | Sri Lanka News Online

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Thanks China!

 

[T-Rex]

Part of the Colombo Port should be leased to the Chinese navy, it will make a good naval base.

 

[Saifullah Sani]

 

[T-Rex]

Where is the indian flag?

 

[JAT BALWAN]

Where is the indian flag?

ooooo... you really want a Bangladeshi flag there??

Don`t worry do some photoshop & it`ll be there....

 

[xTra]

Best of luck to Sri Lanka.

 

[Ammyy]

Part of the Colombo Port should be leased to the Chinese navy, it will make a good naval base.

SriLankan government is not fool like some ........

 

[notsuperstitious]

Where is the indian flag?

 

[zer_0]

Where is the indian flag?

this was not necessary

 

[Skyline]

Part of the Colombo Port should be leased to the Chinese navy, it will make a good naval base.

Recently China is interest about more share, may be they have some plans. but if Chinese wants a naval base it will be "China bay Military base" which is already exists in Sri Lanka.

Chinese F-7GS of SLAF at China Bay Air Force base in Sri Lanka

About Colombo & Hambantota, They're commercial ports.

China Merchants Said to Plan Sri Lanka Terminal Stake Purchase

 

[Kesang]

Where is the indian flag?

In your nightmare!!!

 

[Skyline]

There is a naval base too
Here's some pics of "China Bay Naval base" of SLN.

(Inshore Patrol craft locally built in Colombo armed with Chinese T85 .50cal MG & TKM lmg's. @China Bay Naval Base, Sri Lanka)

 

[T-Rex]

In your nightmare!!!

I didn't know that there was a Chinese naval base in Sri Lanka, isn't that a horrible nightmare?

 

[Ammyy]

Recently China is interest about more share, may be they have some plans. but if Chinese wants a naval base it will be "China bay Military base" which is already exists in Sri Lanka.

Chinese F-7GS of SLAF at China Bay Air Force base in Sri Lanka

SLAF China Bay (IATA: TRR, ICAO: VCCT) is a Sri Lanka Air Force base located at China Bay, Trincomalee. The airbase is situated close to the coast and has a long runway which is believed to be able to handle most modern aircraft. Established by the British as RAF China Bay in the 1920s, the base was attacked by the Japanese during World War II.

SLAF China Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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I didn't know that there was a Chinese naval base in Sri Lanka, isn't that a horrible nightmare?

SLAF China Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Read that fan boy

 

[asad71]

ooooo... you really want a Bangladeshi flag there??

Don`t worry do some photoshop & it`ll be there....

The Sinhalese are our seed. They trace their origin to our Buddhist Prince Vijaya who was forced out of the land by the Hindu king who had began ethnic cleansing of the Buddhists. We feel very close to SL. FYI, their war hero and a great soldier Gen Sarath Fonseka is a graduate of our Staff College. It is said he has been targeted mainly because he has been wary of Indian bully.