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Oluvil port project to generate 10,000 jobs
Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has set all necessary steps to
implement construction of the Oluvil Port which had been under
discussion since 1994. A series of seminars to bring awareness of the
Oluvil Port Construction Project specially among the school children was
held recently in Oluvil.
The series of seminars had been organised under the guidance of
Minister of Ports and Aviation Chamal Rajapaksa in view of bringing
first-hand awareness of the advantages from the project to the community
in the area.
The Management of SLPA has taken due steps to develop its regional
Ports this year parallel to its new programmes launched to work
strategically along with the competitive maritime activities in the
regional maritime sector.
Further, the implementation of the Oluvil Port Project will be a
decisive factor to change the state of lack of employment opportunities
in the region creating 1000 direct and indirect employment opportunities
by 2010 and 10,000 such opportunities by 2015.
The regional communities will receive immense benefits from the
project such as the introduction of cement, fertilizer, and other
industries related to the Port, bringing life to the fisheries sector in
the region, elevating the market sector to a higher standard for the
region's paddy cultivation and dairy industry through the improvement of
conventional cargo handling operations.
The Oluvil Port construction project consists of two phases. During
the first phase of its development, two breakwaters of 475 meters and
740 meters, a reservoir of 16 hectares, utilisation of 10 hectares of
water area for commercial port activities and fisheries activities and a
water area with a depth of 8 meters to enable handling of vessels of
5000 tons, will be constructed.
Meanwhile, implementation for fisheries activities, supply of water
and fuel to fisher vessels will also be done under the 1st phase. During
the second phase of development, dredging of the reservoir up to a depth
of 11 meters enabling handling of vessels of 16000 tons and expanding of
the vessel basing up to 24 hectares are expected.
These series of seminars was held at Nindavur Al Ashrak National
school, Adalaichchenai Central College, Samanthurai Muslim Central
College and also at Sainthamarudu Business Association.
Co-ordinating engineer of the Oluvil Port Project A.L. Mohomad Naufer,
Project Officer M.M. Nagur Thamli, Training Officer M.V. Thahir, and the
principal of Samanthurai Muslim Central College M.M. Faruk also assisted
as resource persons at these seminars.
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Shipping Corporation talks with Korea for shipbuilding
State-run Shipping Corp. of India the county's biggest shipping firm
by fleet size and revenues, is in talks with South Korean shipbuilder
STX Shipbuilding Co. Ltd for a joint venture.
India looks to scale up its shipbuilding capacity to tap into a
global shipbuilding boom. SCI has started discussions with STX for a
joint venture shipyard in India, but nothing has been finalized as yet.
S. Hajara, chairman and managing director of SCI, said the company is
''talking to many partners and will finalize one at an appropriate
time.'' He did not confirm talks with STX and declined to name the
potential partners. An STX spokesperson, too, declined to comment on the
subject.
The Union government plans to build two international-size shipyards,
one each on the east and west coasts, with investments from private
firms to boost India's shipbuilding capacity as part of its $12.4
billion (Rs49,500 crore) national maritime development program.
It is not known whether SCI's talks with STX are for one of these
yards. Indian shipyards currently have the capacity to build ships with
a combined cargo carrying capacity of 2.8 million tonnes (mt) a year.
This is small by global standards. India has 23 shipyards, seven of
which are owned by the Centre and two by state governments. The other
shipyards are owned by private firms, including ABG Shipyard Ltd,
Bharati Shipyard Ltd, Larsen and Toubro Ltd and Pipavav Shipyard Ltd.
STX Shipbuilding has facilities in Busan and Jinhae in South Korea,
Dalian in China and is also building a new yard in Vietnam.
Source: Hellenic Shipping News
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Praise for mission to seafarers from its Secretary General
During February a visit was paid to the Mission to Seafarers Centre
in Colombo by the Rev Canon Bill Christianson, Secretary General of
Mission to Seafarers Globally.
During his visit Canon Christianson praised the staff of the
Seafarers' Centre for the excellent work undertaken in the past 18
months for the welfare of seafarers visiting Sri Lanka.
His last visit in July 2006 was for the licensing of the new
Chaplain, Andrew Payne, during the Annual National Sea Sunday Service
held in the Anglican Cathedral. Since then the Centre has seen a growth
in its activity and in the care for seafarers previously limited in Sri
Lanka.
The Mission to Seafarers is a global welfare society of the Anglican
Church, caring for seafarers of all nationalities and creeds in over 300
ports around the world.
In all ports it with the support of the shipping community, agents
and Port Authority, and also in close co-operation with other
international and national welfare organisations and this includes the
Apostleship of the Sea and the relatively newly formed National
Seafarers' Welfare Board in Sri Lanka.
Canon Christianson is pictured with some members of the National
Seafarers' Welfare Board (NSWB) and the Mission to Seafarers Chairman
and Chaplain, taking delivery of a new vehicle supplied by the
International Transport workers Federation Seafarers' Trust.
As well as meeting members of the NSWB and the local committee, Canon
Christianson also met with members of the Port Authority, and with the
Bishop of Colombo, the Rt. Rev. Duleep de Chickera, who is President of
the Mission to Seafarers in Sri Lanka and oversees the spiritual welfare
services provided through the Port Chaplain.
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Alliance in world's major shipping companies
CMA CGM, MAERSK, and, MSC the world's three largest shipping
companies, are reorganizing their services between China and the US West
Coast with the launch of two joint services in April 2008: the YANG TSE,
serving Central and South China, and the BOHAI RIM, serving Central and
North China.
These two new services will deploy ten 8,000 TEU vessels (5 on each
loop) creating a weekly direct service between China and the United
States. These modern state-of-the art ships will provide excellent
on-time service so that customers can rely on on-time delivery.
This new initiative allows CMA CGM, MAERSK and MSC to rationalize
existing services into a more powerful customer responsive service
offering.
These two new services will provide customers with extensive port
coverage in China with twice per week direct calls between China (Hong
Kong, Yantian and Shanghai) and California ports, the international
gateway to the United States.
"The development of the two new services comes as a replacement of
existing capacity in the trade.
"This rationalization of our service will strengthen our China
coverage and responds nicely to customer needs for increased presence in
North China," explains Jean-Philippe Thenoz, CMA CGM Vice President,
North America Lines.
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