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Project Name: South Container Terminal Project, Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Host Country: The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

Project Duration: December 2011 – April 2014

Project Specification:

The project contract amount is 327 million U.S. dollars and owned by the Colombo International Container Wharf Company Limited. The construction scale is as follows: 3 large container berths, the coastline construction with a total length of 1200 meters, caisson-structure terminal, hydraulic structure designed for an E3-class container vessels with container capacity of berthed vessels of 18,000TEU; the container yard whose width is 439 meters and covers an area of about 640,000 square meters; dredging of the harbor basin water area with a surface area of about 2 million square meters and a dredging elevation of at least -18.0 meters. The designed throughput of the Terminal is 2.4 million TEU. The project commenced on December 16, 2011 and completed on April 10, 2014 on schedule.

Characteristics and Significance of the Project:

According to the preliminary planning of Sri Lanka as one of the important ports, the Port of Colombo bears the important task of driving Sri Lanka's development, restoring its former glory, and revitalizing its economy. The Port of Colombo will be based on port operations, make efforts to develop large-scale port-neighboring industrial zones, industrial parks and supporting areas for urban life.

The Port of Colombo is the only port in South Asia that can accommodate ships with a draft of 18 meters with the capacity to serve the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and some countries in Africa due to its location, makes making it an important pivot of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.

In July, 2013, the first phase of the Terminal with 400m-long coastline was handed over to the owner five months earlier than the contract schedule, bringing huge economic benefits to the owner. The overall handover of the project was completed on April 10, 2014 and at present; the Terminal is running in good condition. Since its completion, the Terminal has received extensive attention from all parties, and has received dignitaries from all walks of life and news media. In the construction process, the project had entertained the owners of CHEC’s projects in other countries many times, providing powerful support for the inter-country collaboration. The on-time completion and good image of the project display the management and organizational capabilities of CHEC in EPC projects. The completion of the project has greatly improved the throughput capacity of the Port of Colombo and effectively facilitating the national economic development of Sri Lanka, giving it a "shining pearl" in the Indian Ocean.

The project won the 2016-2017 National Quality Engineering Award.