Hambantota Port

Hambantota Port is a proposed multi-cargo port proposed for Hambantota, Sri Lanka. One of the elements of the proposed port is for handling coal imported for new and proposed coal fired power stations

A website promoting Hambantota as a potential bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games states that "the government of Sri Lanka expects Hambantota Port to be developed to provide links to twelve areas of development activities - Thermal power generation, oil refinery and petrochemical industry, coal fired power plant, bunkering services, coal transhipment and distribution, ship-building and repair activities, transhipment car activities, bonded export processing zone, bulk cargo and general cargo berths, fishing activities and export of fish products and container traffic."

Financing
China has lent $400 million for the first phase of the proposed port.

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