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Message: <blockquote data-quote="warwickuni" data-source="post: 26929502" data-attributes="member: 101444"><p>If so why did it could not even get fraction of ships to this harbour even for bunkering to run it at a profit? China only granted EXIM bank loan for this to my knowledge. They did not want to own or lease it. But they needed repayment of loan which we failed due to low income from it. (I am not an expert in the field).  We had local firms bidding for SAGT and finally cosotium with JKH got it (the unsusseful finalist was Aitken Spence ) . So why was no interest shown from private sector for this harbour ? Aitken Spence who lost the bid for SAGT,  later went half the world across to find a small port in Pacific Island and they are managing and owning it. So why they did not show any interest in Sri Lankan port?(when they already have expertise and money etc)? They are a blue chip company with overseas assets and substantial FC investments. Why could not we find even a foreign investor for this port which was in the pipe line from 1994? (Even CBK tried this without any success though Sothern Development Board which had international personalities ).</p></blockquote><p></p>

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