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Port Investment Services

The Port Investment Services responsibility lies with generating export oriented Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects for the port industrial park, encompassing an extent of 228 acres of land for industries to build and operate their business in addition to carrying out property management for the Maritime Center. Port Related businesses and industries benefit on time-savings and minimum logistic costs as they have easy access to the port services for those engaging in imports and exports for their business. We also offer corporate office spaces at the Hambantota Maritime Center for prospective tenants who wish to engage their business from the Hambantota Port.

The Industrial Park

The Port Industrial Park holds a little over two square kilometers of dedicated land, which is made available for the setup of business and industries. Having the Hambantota Port declared as a free-port, eases financial burdens in today’s fast moving day and age for shippers and manufacturers to manage their cargo movement on import, export and re-export. The Port Industrial Park follows and replicates the success of China Merchants Port’s strategic ‘PPC’ or Port, Park & City model, which was first effectively implemented in the renowned industrial zone - Shekou in Shenzhen, in the People’s Republic of China. This model has enabled investors to benefit from considerable savings in cost and time as a result of having the port within close proximity to their manufacturing plant

The industrial park has demarcated and classified 3 industry clusters such as Heavy Industries, Light Industries and Food processing industries. This demarcation is indicated on the diagram below and also shows the land area allocated for each cluster.

HIP welcomes the setting up of any manufacturing industry that’s geared towards exports in the Hambantota International port Industrial park, provided it conforms to the Investment, Environment Laws and Policies of the Government of Sri Lanka. Heavy polluting Industries such as coal and cement manufacturing will not be allowed.

Cluster	Industry Sector	Year 2050 Land area (ha)
Heavy industry	Heavy industry	31.13
	Total	31.13
Light industry	Light industry-portside	94.92
	Light industry-landside	19.14
	Total	114.07
Food processing	Food processing	16.33
	Total	16.33
Service area	Office	0.41
	Residential-apatment(for middle manager)	1.89
	Residential-dormitory(for worker)	1.93
	Retails	0.41
	Life service	0.44
	Sports	0.44
	Total	5.52
Artificial island	Leisure area	3.25
	Commercial area	5.44
	Office complex	2.72
	Residential & villa	16.06
	Eco-park & square	5.48
	Total	32.95
Green	Green belt	22.64
	Total	22.64
Utility	Utility	5.90
	Total	5.90
Industrial park area	Total	228.53

Investor Benefits

• Savings in time and cost of transportation due to easy access to port services for imports and exports.
• Warehousing facilities for bulk storage.
• Free Trade Agreements with India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Singapore.
• GSP & GSP + with USA, Canada, Australia and Europe.
• Access to skilled labour.
• Complimenting and constantly expanding road networks and expressways within the island.
• Sufficient water and power capacity to accommodate investor’s project requirements.
• Public facilities such as hospitals and recreational activities.