Colombo Dockyard (CDPLC) inked an agreement with Hambantota International Port Group (Private) Ltd (HIPG), to setup a fully-fledged workshop at the HIPG facility on the 16th of July 2024.
Once the workshop is setup, this will augment the service availability and the speed of service to the clients, improving the economics to the end user. This new workshop, when in operation will extend the service footprint of Colombo Dockyard to the southernmost tip of Sri Lanka.
The strategic maritime location of Hambantota, in close proximity to the key maritime routes, will allow Colombo Dockyard to offer afloat repair services to a multitude of vessels calling for transhipment, bunkering and other operations and dedicated afloat repairs. HIPG port is a deep draft port with extensive berths that can handle vessels up to 17-meter draft, going up to VLCC.
Colombo Dockyard’s Rapid Response Afloat Repair Service (RRARS), which was launched in 2019 to provide afloat repairs services at all Sri Lankan ports, has played a crucial role in providing the required repair support to the vessels the Sri Lankan waters. The excellent facilities available at the HIP, with over three and a half kilometres of deep draft berths, selected berths serviced with cranage comes in handy for execution of speedy afloat repairs.
These proactive initiatives for setting up a fully-fledged workshop within the HIP facility, will provide much needed capacity augmentation for afloat repairs in Sri Lanka. These auxiliary service availability to the vessels calling the Sri Lankan waters, will also play crucial role in generating much needed foreign exchange to the Sri Lankan economy. Colombo Dockyard operates in joint collaboration with Onomichi Dockyard Co. Ltd, Japan since 1993. Colombo Dockyard will be celebrating 50 years of operations in 2024, since its establishment in the year 1974.
Mr Johnson Liu – Chief Executive Officer of Hambantota International Port Group (Pvt) Limited signed the agreement, while Mr. Thimira S Godakumbura, Managing Director / Chief Executive officer signed on behalf of Colombo Dockyard PLC. The HIPG team consisted of Mr Bindu Ranasinghe, DGM-Commercial & Marketing, Mr. Henry Liu, Executive-Commercial & Marketing, Ms. Jayathmi Gamachchige- Asst Manager-Commercial & Marketing, Ms. Deshani Koralage, Senior Manager-Legal, Mr Kavindu Abesuriya, Senior Executive, Legal and Mr Ranjith Withanawasm.