Srilanka, Feb. 2 -- Sri Lanka's harbour woes surface from time to time. The latest bout is, however, more disconcerting than it was earlier. The Port facilities have been in demand latterly, but the harbour staff has not been able to handle demand.

Meanwhile, this writer saw some articles that offer the view that all this is making us lose out to 'Singapore and Dubai.' The writers of these opinion pieces seem not to care that much about the fact that Singapore handles ten times more shipping volume than Sri Lanka does.

But yet we are 'losing competition to Singapore?.' No we are not. We are trying to keep our harbour viable, which means that we have to think of entirely new strategies that have nothing to do with Singapore or Dubai.

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