The Hambantota International Port says that it is ready to move up its operations to a refinery, energy hub and container transshipment.
Tissa Wickremasinghe, COO of HIPG in a statement said that Sri Lanka needs to have a holistic approach in terms of container handling.
While noting that there is a ‘huge potential market out there’, and it can be captured under a unified Sri Lankan brand, the COO of the Hambantota International Port Group said that it will also provide great value in terms of cutting costs for the Indo-Pacific region manufacturers and for regions in the far east, who are reaching out to the gulf, European and African markets.
Hambantota International port (HIP) has earned the ‘amongst the best in the world’ benchmark for handling transshipment of vehicles coming on and off vessels in the past few years, with several of the largest shipping lines in the RO-RO business now operating in and out of HIP.
HIP’s latest endorsement comes from the shipping line MOL, who awarded the port an appreciation certificate for achieving ZERO damage operation and maintaining safe Pure Car Carrier (PCC) cargo handling during the period 1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023.
“The award was presented under the category ‘Handling more than 40,000 annual MOL,’ at the shipping line’s Annual Stevedore Meeting (India and Indian Ocean Region), which was held in Chennai, recently,” said a statement.
