Lanka Ports Authority launches CPILDP

Colombo: The Data Base and the Project Access Report of the Colombo Port Integrated Development Project (CPILDP) of Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) was launched at the Mahapola Training Institute (MPTI) of SLPA recently.

Co-Chairman of the Project, and the Executive Director of SLPA Dr. Sanjaya Sedara Senarath said that it was much pleasure to complete these works with the fullest contribution of the staff and employees of SLPA without outsourcing the project.

Co-Chairman, and Director of SLPA Prasanna Kalutharage stated that SLPA was able to save a large amount of money by implementing the programme as an inhouse project.

He also said that the exemplary procedures set by the implementation of Hambantota Port Development Project, gave boost for the implementation of such mega programmes to be carried out with the expertise and the experience of the employeer of SLPA without handing them over to local or foreign external institutions.

Colombo Port Integrated Land Development Project is in the third place among several other mega port development programmes implemented by SLPA. It is also the first ever such development project implemented with the hundred percent contribution of the in-house consultation, and employee participation.

The programme has been planned to bring maximum transshipment income to SLPA once the project is completed. A 26 acre land in which SLPA employee quarters have been situated will be utilised to build the cargo village under the project.