Navy renders assistance to load 1,086 vehicles to Vehicles Carrier Ship at the Port of Hambantota
 

The protest campaign staged by the port employees of Hambantota Harbour on 7th December 2016, continues to its seventh day as of today (13) hampering the routine work of the Port of Hambantota. The Sri Lanka Navy got the tense situation which erupted on 10th December under control restoring back the security of the harbour and establishing normalcy.

Further, naval personnel made an extensive effort to rectify the damages caused on the generators, power supply system and cleared all the obstacles effected to equipment and machinery by these saboteurs. The swift involvement of the Sri Lanka Navy helped reduce the potential losses that would have been suffered by the Sri Lankan Government due to non-operations of the harbour as a result of the sabotage carried out by port employees.

Accordingly, the Navy rendered assistance to load 1,086 cars and jeeps onboard a Vehicles Carrier, ‘Glovis Phoenix’ today (13). The South Korean Vehicles Carrier arrived at the outer harbour of Hambantota on 11th December and made its entry into the port today (13) for the loading of vehicles. The ship is scheduled to leave the Port of Hambantota for its next port of call in Durban, South Africa, having the vehicles loaded expeditiously by tomorrow (14).