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Sri Lanka to seek BOT investor for Galle leisure port

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Aerial view of the Galle Fort. 72 miles south of Colombo. The Dutch built the main part of the fort with its ramparts and fortifications.

Sri Lanka’s cabinet of ministers had given the approval to call for expressions of interests from private investors to develop Galle Port as a leisure and commercial port as a public private partnership (PPP), Minister Bandula Gunawardana said.

The private party will have to invest on a breakwater, sea wall, deep passenger anchorage, channel and land filling.

Mixed development projects would be set up on the filled land, he said.

The PPP would be on a build operate transfer basis