Sri Lanka government's desperate attempt to make Hambanthota something give further pain to people

A costly (day) dream

Sri Lanka government is in a desperate attempt to make Hambanthota Mahinda Rajapaksa port a useful venture.  Since no ships are coming there, the government has decided to divert vehicle transport ships there. 


Associated Motor Ways (AMW) company, the agents of a range of light vehicles including Japanese Suzuki and Indian Maruti, says that the price of the motor vehicles will further go up with the government decision to shift disembarkation of motor vehicles to Hambanthota since May 31.

A company spokesman said that car careers will be used to transport motor vehicles to Colombo for the distribution and one career can carry only six cars. If they have a showroom and workshop there, the price of a car will be Rs. 25,000 less there. 


Perhaps, some day the local vehicle business centre might move to Hambanthota. Now, its mostly in Colombo, Kurunegala and Kandy, I think. But god knows if people will like to travel all the way close to Down Under to see vehicles. Yet, David Peiris has already shifted Bajaj assembly plants to Hambanthota. 


You can't make Hambanthota everything. But it needs to be made something. Unless the massive public money spent on it will go berserk. 

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