Sri Lanka's Chinese-built port opens for business

[SpArK]

Ship from India also arrived!

OMG.. destroy it... bomb it...

 

[Skyline]

OMG.. destroy it... bomb it...

just kidding

 

[Shinigami]

Ship from India also arrived!

which models are these?

 

[harpoon]

which models are these?

Looks like Hyundai Accent.

Trivia: Car carriers are very unstable ships and can easily overturn.

 

[Skyline]

which models are these?

Hyundai, left hand drive

 

[harpoon]

I am alien to all this shipping world..but can anyone explain why cars has to be first transferred to SL from Chennai on the way to Algeria. Why can't the ship just travel straight to Algeria.

 

[Skyline]

more pics...

I am alien to all this shipping world..but can anyone explain why cars has to be first transferred to SL from Chennai on the way to Algeria. Why can't the ship just travel straight to Algeria.

May be taxes or it's easy to collect those vehicles from SL than going away from main sea route.
Transshipment will happen via Hyundai Glovis car carrier, Asian Legend.

 

[SXNJ]

Congratulations，it's a WIN-WIN for China and SL

 

[SHAMK9]

Yeah something like in progress....

SL growth never gud for us.

for that matter, India wouldnt like its neighbors to grow economically.
on topic: good luck to Sri Lanka with the port

 

[harpoon]

May be taxes or it's easy to collect those vehicles from SL than going away from main sea route.
Transshipment will happen via Hyundai Glovis car carrier, Asian Legend.

Cars cannot be carried by any other ship.It needs the specialized car carriers. So if this ship can travel from Chennai to SL, it can travel straight to Algeria also.

for that matter, India wouldnt like its neighbors to grow economically.
on topic: good luck to Sri Lanka with the port

Oh Please..you are basing your opinion on the basis of a single Indian member.

 

[Skyline]

Cars cannot be carried by any other ship.It needs the specialized car carriers. So if this ship can travel from Chennai to SL, it can travel straight to Algeria also.

I heard Korean Hyundai Glovis company has around 30 car carriers, may be they don't want to show these are from their factory in India etc.

 

[rcrmj]

Are there Made in china equipments in this port?

Just wanted to know when the port will be shut down for repair.

when too many illegal low skilled Indians start working in the port which will cause damages to the equipments in the port

 

[harpoon]

I heard Korean Hyundai Glovis company has around 30 car carriers, may be they don't want to show these are from their factory in India etc.

So it means in the manual and the serial # there will be no mention of India. Any car enthusiast can know which car is made where. Its not some big secret.

 

[rcrmj]

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[Machete]

Basing of Chinese Naval Ships in SL perhaps

Chinese-helped new SL Naval base comes up in Vanni, targeting Tamil Fishermen...

Sri Lanka occupying the country of Eezham Tamils opened a new naval base in the western coast of Vanni at Naachchik-kudaa facing the Palk Bay in a commanding position to target movements from the Tamil Nadu coast of India. Construction of the new naval base received Chinese help. SL navy commander Somathilake Tissanayake inaugurated the base on Monday. Meanwhile, journalists who have gone for the annual church fete at the uninhabited islet Kachcha-theevu in the Palk Bay has noticed a permanently built SL naval base there. The construction material of this base and a newly coming up jetty there were found with Chinese markings. Two SL naval ships are always stationed near Kachcha-theevu. The attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen deploying Sinhala gangs from the south are operated by SLN in Kachcha-theevu.

This week, petrol bombs thrown by a gang coming in a boat destroyed a Tamil Nadu fishing boat near Kachcha-theevu.

The new naval base, located in a cove at the fishing port Naachchik-kudaa in the Kariyaalai-Naakappaduvan division of the Ki`linochchi district, has been given with a Sinhala name Bhuvaneka.

From the location the base could monitor the fishing villages from Mannaar to the Devil`s Point coast in the Vanni, as well as movements from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu and the Ira`nai-theevu and Kachcha-theevu islets.

SL defence secretary and presidential sibling Gotabhaya Rajapaksa put the naval division in this part of Vanni to operation in August last year. The new naval division will function under Sri Lanka`s North Central Command.

Apart from the KKS naval base, already there are three more major SL naval bases in the north at Kaarainakar, Veala`nai and Ma`ndai-theevu to conduct surveillance of movements in the Palk Bay from Tamil Nadu. Besides, there are many small naval detachments all along the coasts of the north.

Right from 1960s Colombo was systematically following a naval policy of choking the coasts of the north in the pretext of checking smuggling. A former Sinhala Government Agent of Jaffna has put it on record that this naval policy in the 1960s itself was actually in anticipation of checking Tamils in the island, because the Colombo government was very much conscious that its policies on Tamils would eventually bring in trouble.

Now the mushrooming naval bases directly target Tamil Nadu, strategic analysts said.

Chinese-helped new SL Naval base comes up in Vanni, targeting Tamil Fishermen... - Sri Lanka

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Nowadays SL navy patrolling along with Chinese close to our borders.