Sri Lanka has offered the East Container Terminal (ECT) of the Colombo Port to Japan, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said.
Colombo Port’s West Terminal has been given to India’s Adani group to develop as a joint venture after the the government of previous president cancelled the ECT deal with India and Japan through a tripartite agreement .
“If we really want to do it, we have to give the East Terminal,” President Wickremesinghe told the Sri Lanka Economic Summit of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.
“We have given first offer to Japan.”
If Japan does not take it will be open to others, he said.