All the necessary development works to increase the operational capacity of JCT, the oldest container terminal at the Port of Colombo, are currently being completed and scheduled to be officially opened by the end of June this year.
In order to observe the on-going development activities, Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation, Nimal Siripala de Silva, made an inspection visit at the terminal yesterday. In addition to the 14 gantry cranes currently in operation, the new development work at the terminal include installing three new 45-meter high gantry cranes, lengthening the 1,280 -meter anchorage by increasing 120 meters, expanding the container yard by 13 acres, etc. SLPA has invested capital of Rs 10 billion for these development activities.
After the completion of these development work, it will be possible to berth two large container vessels at the same time and increase the efficiency of TUEs handling, Sri Lanka Ports Authority says.
Accordingly, the Sri Lanka Ports Authority SLPA emphasizes that the number of containers currently handled from 1.8 million to 2.5 million per year. The Secretary to the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Aviation K.D.S. Ruwanchandra, SLPA Chairman, Keith D. Bernard, Vice Chairman Gayan Alagewattege, Managing Director, Prabath J.Malavige , Additional Managing Director (Admin & HR), Nalin Aponso , Additional Managing Director (Port operations) , Lal Weerasinghe, Additional Managing Director (Technical ) J.A. Chandrarathna, Director (Operations) U. Kumara and a group of officials also on this inspection visit.
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