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After Scrapping Eastern Container Terminal Agreement, Sri Lanka Offers Western Container Terminal For India And Japan by Swarajya Staff - Mar 3, 2021 08:54 AM Colombo Port (thetravelguru/Wikimedia Commons) After scrapping an agreement to develop a strategic East Container Terminal (ECT) at the Colombo port with help from India and Japan, the Sri Lankan government has decided to offer the West Container Terminal (WCT) to Indian and Japanese companies. According to the Sri Lankan government’s department of information, the Lankan cabinet “has approved the proposal to develop the West ...

Sri Lanka Cancels Colombo East Container Terminal Deal With India Under Trade Unions' Pressure, Offers 'Better Alternative' by M R Subramani - Feb 3, 2021 10:33 AM Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. (Facebook) Snapshot On 28 January, Colombo Port’s 23 trade unions, backed by over 220 unions across the island nation, began a protest against the project being given to 'foreign' companies. However, a Chinese company, backed by the Xi Jinping government, operates an international container terminal at the Colombo harbour adjacent to the Eastern Container Terminal. The Gotabaya Rajapak...

Posted on January 31st, 2021 Courtesy India Today Sri Lanka PM Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday denied selling, leasing out or coming into any sort of an agreement with a foreign country over the Eastern Container Terminal. espite reports of the Sri Lankan cabinet clearing the trilateral Eastern Container Terminal (ECT) project between Sri Lanka, Japan and India, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday denied selling, leasing out or coming into any sort of an agreement with a foreign country over the Eastern Container Terminal. Speaking to the media on Sunday, when aske...

Sri Lanka PM Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday denied selling, leasing out or coming into any sort of an agreement with a foreign country over the Eastern Container Terminal.

The Right Way To Do The Eastern Container Project Prof. Kuma David The fracas about the Eastern Container Terminal is mostly if not entirely political; concerns re finance, technology and traffic, in so far as the spat in the public domain is concerned, are not of substance. The scuffle is twofold – domestic nationalist ideology and Lanka’s positioning in geopolitics. In the domestic arena it is all about Indian participation, and the principal protagonist is Sinhala Nationalism. There is subliminal ideological aversion in the Sinhala nationalist mind to things Indian. This is not the pla...