Colombo Port City rises with green Chinese solutions

As the plan for making infrastructure projects greener and more innovative has gathered steam in many countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, China Harbour Engineering Co Ltd (CHEC), a Beijing-based marine engineering specialist, said it will introduce more green solutions for the building of Colombo Port City in Colombo, the executive and judicial capital of Sri Lanka, in the coming years.

Constructed and invested by CHEC, a subsidiary of State-owned China Communications Construction Co, the project is the largest public-private partnership in the South Asian country to date, said the Sri Lankan government.

Construction of the project began in 2014 and the Chinese company will invest a total of $1.4 billion in the first phase of the mega project. Its total construction period is estimated to be between 20 and 25 years.