Technical Assistance Consultant’s Report Project Number: 50184-001 February 2020 Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: National Port Master Plan (Financed by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction) The Colombo Port Development Plan – Volume 2 (Part 3) Prepared by Maritime & Transport Business Solutions B.V. (MTBS) Rotterdam, The Netherlands For Sri Lanka Ports Authority This consultant’s report does not necessarily reflect the views of ADB or the Government concerned, and ADB and the Government cannot be held liable for its contents. (For project preparatory technical assistance: All the views expressed herein may not be incorporated into the proposed project’s design. Figure 8-16 Warehouse Logistics Process Three main flows can be identified: • Incoming flow: products or goods discharged from a truck or unloaded from a container. • Warehousing cargo flow: storage of the palletised goods within the warehouse and – if applicable – registration/follow-up of additional value added activities like re-packing, labelling, price-marking, etc. • Outgoing flow: products or goods leaving the warehouse via truck or loaded into a container. The use of pallets is one of the basic and most fundamental requirements of modern warehousing activities and operations. All incoming cargo or products that are not yet palletised need to be stacked on (standardised) pallets during or directly after unloading a truck or un-stuffing a container. A dedicated follow-up of pallet stock management is of paramount importance to carry on the logistics activities. After palletising the goods, the content of each pallet needs to be inventoried and this data needs to flow into the warehouse management system. This can be done either manually, with barcode readers or with mobile data terminals, or automatically. Subsequently, the warehouse management system will determine a suitable stacking location for each of the pallets, depending on the stacking dimensions and the corresponding weight. Recommendations and Short Term Priority Projects Compared to the modern way of operating a logistics warehouse, the current SLPA infrastructure and corresponding operations are lacking efficiency. In order to increase the stacking density and upgrade the performance of the logistics services, palletising of the incoming and outgoing flows of goods is considered an absolute requirement. This service can be offered (and charged for) in case the incoming goods arrive at the SLPA CFS area in a non-palletised form. The following recommendations can be made regarding SLPA’s warehousing design and development: R13. Design and construction of a new warehouse to cover the MCC operational requirements in the future. R14. Investment in new equipment (pallet trucks, reach stackers) to operate the logistics warehouse. R15. Procurement of a modern, state-of-the-art Warehouse Management System (WMS). These recommendations lead to the following short term priority projects related to warehousing at the port: confidential Colombo Port Development Plan | March 2019 Page 140 SP9. BQ Warehousing Relocation Plan – Current Warehouses on BQ need to be relocated to ensure continuation of operations. Additionally, new equipment needs to be procured and a modern Warehouse Management System needs to be adopted. confidential Colombo Port Development Plan | March 2019 Page 141 8.4 Demolishment and Relocation Demolishment The port has several buildings and warehouses that are subject for demolishment due to their end-of structural life and or to be disposed because of new developments like the PAEH. Some of the buildings are still in function and it remains questionable whether safety of goods and personnel can be assured. Further, subject to the port to become a modern, clean and safe port, some the structures should be demolished and replaced. The following picture shows the buildings that need to be demolished in red and relocation issues in blue. Figure 8-17 presents the envisioned demolishment of buildings in the port. • BQ warehouses – (nr. 3) In order to free the BQ area for the new passenger terminal the warehouses/transit sheds need to be relocated. Options are the Bloemandhal hill, the Corner of South port and the triangle. • BQ Welfare building – (nr. 4) same as above. • Equipment workshop – (nr 5.) this building has reached economic life. • Japanese workshop – (nr. 6) this building has reached economic life. • Building near gatehouse – (nr. 7) this building is need to be moved due to the PAEH developments. • Warehouse CFS IV and V – (nr.9) these buildings need to be improved for efficient handlings. Due to a policy to have warehousing centred these buildings would become obsolete once. • Workshops electrical and mechanical – (nr.10) this building is need to be moved due to the PAEH developments. • Workshop JCT – (nr.12) this building is need to be moved due to the PAEH developments and JCT gate improvements. • Fuel station – (nr.10) this facility is positioned wrongly in terms of logistics in the port and is preferably relocated. • Warehouse on PVQ – (nr.16) this facility is used by detained cargoes by customs and has reached economic life. The goods should not be stored in the port area near a quay. • Warehouse near cement factories – (nr.17) this facility has reached economic lifetime and needs to be removed. confidential Colombo Port Development Plan | March 2019 Page 142 Figure 8-18: Development & Demolishment Port Building 1 Optional Development – BQ Relocation 10 Workshops Electrical and Mechanical – to be demolished 2 Optional Development – BQ Relocation 11 Workshop JCT to be established 3 BQ Warehouses – to be demolished to create 12 Workshop JCT to be demolished passenger terminal 4 BQ Welfare Building – to be demolished to create 13 Fuel Station – to be relocated (see point 8) passenger terminal 5 Equipment workshop forklift trucks – to be 14 Workshop electrical and mechanical to be created demolished 6 Japanese warehouse – to be demolished 15 Optional Development – UCT new Warehouse 7 Building near Gate house – to be demolished 16 Warehouse on PVQ pier to be demolished 8 Optional location for fuel station in future 17 Warehouse near cement factories to be demolished 9 Warehouse CFS IV and V – to be demolished once 18 Optional Development – New warehouse location new warehouses are offered (BQ Relocation) 19 New administration building – a new SLPA office is planned at the Beira canal Relocations Due to the PAEH developments several buildings are affected. SLPA have made a detailed plan for the relocation of affected buildings. confidential Colombo Port Development Plan | March 2019 Page 143 The main observation is that mechanical and electrical workshops have to be relocated. These are relocated to an area near Aluthmawatha underpass as explained in the picture below. The new workshops shall have multi-level stores to ensure that the floor spaces are sufficient while the ground spaces will become less compared to the old situation. Figure 8-19 presents the envisioned buildings for relocations in the port. • Optional location BQ warehouses – (nr. 1) is an optional location for the BQ warehouses. • Optional location BQ warehouses – (nr. 2) is an optional location for the BQ warehouses. • Optional location for fuel station – (nr. 8) this area is centrally located and, after PAEH has been created and warehouses are relocated it would become a good location for the fuel station. • Workshop JCT to be established – (nr. 11) A new workshop for JCT is required as existing ones are replaced for PAEH and Gate activities. • Workshop electrical and mechanical – (nr. 14) these facilities can be located in this area subject to a multi store buildings and provided that the area receives with clear access and sufficient equipment parking. • Optional development warehouse UCT– (nr. 15) As the passenger activities may actually already start at BQ, one of the warehouses of BQ needs to be emptied. To provide for additional space a warehouse can be created near UCT. • Optional development BQ warehouse– (nr. 18) this area is the preferred location for LCL handling in the port and can replace the BQ warehousing areas • New administration building – (nr. 19) the offices located in the old administration building will be consolidated in a new multi store level building to be created at the Beira canal (opposite point 7 on the map). The new office will have a bypass into the port so that personnel can easy access the port area from the building. The building will also hold a coordination centre of the PAEH as well as road traffic management systems. Short Term Priority Projects SP10. Mechanical and electric workshops. – Due to the PAEH project, a number of buildings need to be relocated. SP11. The resettlement of underutilised buildings confidential Colombo Port Development Plan | March 2019 Page 144 9 Connectivity and Hinterland 9.1 Introduction This chapter aims to describe the accessibility of the port both from a nautical perspective as well from a hinterland perspective. • This chapter starts in section 9.2 with an overview of the current nautical access and the major recommendations: Automation of harbour master operations can greatly increase safety. • Section 9.3 presents connectivity by roads including a section on the PAEH, the effects on the current port connectivity and the major recommendations: Port roads and port gates are of great concern to the connectivity. With the construction of PAEH opportunities and threats (if not properly executed) arise for modernisation. • Section 9.4 describes the connectivity by rail and the multimodal options including the recommendations and short term priority projects: Transport by rail is currently not feasible in Colombo port, but SLPA should strive for securing a rail path for future flexibility in this regards. 9.2 Nautical access and navigation Accessibility is the most important feature for the port to facilitate trade. This relates both to waterside accessibility (access channel, navigational constraints, water depth at berths), and to landside accessibility (connectivity to highways, gate capacities, and rail connections). The port of Colombo is characterised by a single entrance channel that leads to two main port basins.