VIDEO: Biggest white elephant ever built – Mangala

This is the biggest white elephant ever built in Sri Lanka, UNP MP Mangala Samaraweera addressing a media briefing said today referring to the Magampura port in Hambanthota which was commissioned today. He added that the Hambanthota Habour is not an international harbor.

Samaraweera went on to explain that every international habour has to have an internationally valid insurance certificate. He questioned the government whether the Hambanthota harbor had such a certificate.

If Hambanthota is an international harbor it has to have the certificate from the American Mega Port initiative, if not none of the US vessels will be able to berth at the port, Samaraweera stated.

He mockingly added that the vessel that entered the habour today the ‘Jetliner’ is a chartered vessel that is occasionally used for office parties and private functions. Samaraweera claimed that the Hambanthota harbor will serve no purpose for the people of the region.