At this time, Hambantota Harbour was still a small fishing port, and it was not equipped to provide services such as docking and oil supply for large ships.

Yang Jie wants to build a super-large harbor here to accommodate super giant ships, and now in the international ocean trade, 100,000 tons, 200,000 tons, or even 300,000 tons of cargo ships are gradually becoming the mainstream, and Yang Jie naturally will not fight the idea of these fishing ports.

In fact, the survey and research work of the Hambantota port construction began more than 10 years ago, and the research was very sufficient, and the new wharf port area was also selected, but the action of building the port has not been substantially started, and the main reason is that there is no money.

The place where the port was built is in a remote place, and there are no people around at all.

Yang Jie, Song Manli, Uncle Xiao, Huo Xiaotian and others also took a small gunboat from the Sri Lankan side to inspect this harbor.

"The original area of this harbor is not small, and if the port basin is excavated, it can be turned into a super large port that can accommodate 300,000 tons of oil tankers and super large cargo ships. ”

Yang Jie stood on the deck at this time and said to Song Manli and Uncle Xiao.

Seeing the confident and determined look on Yang Jie's face, Huo Xiaotian said: "The construction of this port will take at least several years, and the Lion Country already has a large port like Colombo, and now you have to invest in the construction of such a port to compete with the Colombo port, it is still a new port, it is difficult to say how many cargo ships can be attracted to come!"

In fact, the port of Colombo in the Lion Country has done a very good job in the construction of a cargo transit port, which was even better than Singapore, but later the Lion Country fell into a civil war, the economy fell into complete stagnation, and there was no financial resources to build the port, and Colombo's status as an important hub port continued to decline.

In fact, Colombo has long existed as a transit port for ships connecting with countries such as Tianzhu, Baba Yang and Bangladesh.

Ships capable of carrying 1,000 containers in these countries will be transshipped at the port of Colombo, and oversized ships capable of carrying more than 10,000 containers will be sent to Europe and the United States, and the cargo unloaded by those oversized ships in the transit port will be connected to the ports of these countries by these 1,000 TEU container ships for bulk cargo.

Colombo is already very familiar with this aspect, and now these domestic state-owned enterprises are now investing in the construction of Colombo Port, but also to build a terminal that can dock large ships, how to attract ships on the international shipping line to Hambantota is indeed a very worthy consideration.

"So this port is going to be connected to a large industrial park," Yang Jie said with a smile, "I mean to build a hydrogen fuel production base here, supply hydrogen fuel to South Asian and Southeast Asian countries, and make this a new energy base." ”

Huo Xiaotian's eyes lit up: "The oil, natural gas and coal resources here in the Lion Country are extremely scarce, and almost all of them rely on imports, but it is indeed very profitable to import coal from Africa and send it to this port to produce hydrogen fuel, and then send it to neighboring countries." ”

Yang Jie said with a smile: "At present, there are about 33 ports with a transshipment volume of more than one million in the world, of which Singapore and Hong Kong have transshipment volume of more than 10 million, and it has become a world-class transit hub port. The geographical location of the Lion Country is also equivalent to a transit hub like Hong Kong, this port can radiate to the population of 1.7 billion people in South Asia, but Tianzhu, the most populous here, cannot become the second Chinese country, so I never thought of making this Hambantota port rely on cargo transit as the most important value-added business at the beginning. ”

"Now the development of transit transportation in coastal ports of China with an interwoven network is bound to weaken the market share of relay transit in Singapore, and this market is in the hands of container shipping companies, although the development of container transit business will bring considerable throughput to the port, but the direct economic contribution of transit transportation to the port is not so large, usually the cost of loading and unloading a container for exporting is about 100 US dollars, due to the need for transshipment to be loaded on a ship, One unloading of the ship, after the amortization of the cost of each operation between 50 and 65 US dollars, the profit is thin. ”

"Now the port transit industry is very competitive, because the volume of transshipment is mainly controlled by large shipping companies, there is no relatively mature logistics system behind the wharf, I can not give these shipping companies a good return before the establishment of a relatively mature logistics system, can only rely on the industrial park here to radiate hydrogen fuel, automotive products, hydrogen fuel cell products and equipment to South Asia and the Arabian Sea, together with the port to do the scale. ”

"Mr. Yang is indeed a business wizard and has such a thorough understanding of the construction of this Hambantota port. ”

The official of the Ministry of Commerce of the Lion Country next to him said with a smile.

"I am very confident in the construction of this Hambantota port, but in order to achieve my goal, the investment scale of this port and the industrial park is very large, at least as high as 3 billion US dollars, which also needs the support of the central government of the Lion Kingdom and the local government!"

Yang Jie smiled and said.

"That's for sure!"

These officials from the Lion Kingdom all nodded their heads one after another, and they all looked happy.

In the evening, the Lion Kingdom also came up with their construction blueprint many years ago, Yang Jie shook his head after looking at it carefully for a while: "This design can only be regarded as port construction, but also add the Lingang Industrial Logistics Zone, this industrial logistics zone covers an area including automobile production lines, energy and power industries, at least 20 square kilometers of industrial land will be used, and it is expected to provide 100,000 jobs for the local people in the future, so the design plan should be redesigned." ”

The official of the Ministry of Commerce of the Lion Kingdom put away the design blueprint with a smile on his face, "Mr. Yang, what kind of cooperation do you hope to adopt for this project?"

"I hope to set up a joint venture company to develop this port and port industrial logistics zone, and we Huaxing Group will also be able to enjoy the concession rights of the port. ”

Yang Jie said.

"We need to submit a report application to the Presidential Palace, and we will give you an answer only after Mr. President agrees. ”

"Of course. ”

Yang Jie nodded.

To be able to get the 99-year operating concession of this Hambantota port, Yang Jie has absolute confidence that the port will continue to make money under his operation, and the concession of almost 100 years is enough to make 10 times the investment back.