Interactive relationship between port development and port city in Hambantota, Sri Lanka

The Port Construction Project has been a dominant topic in the last five years because it is the largest project implemented with considerable economic, social and environmental impacts. The Port is not a project operating by itself but will create city characteristics to fulfil the requirements of port functions. The port city is a subject related to the port activities, social, physical, economic and environmental infrastructure that are being developing alongside the port project. The interactive relationship between port and port city is being established quantitatively and abstracted to make trend calculations of other infrastructure for the purpose of making predictions about the port city area. Have figured out the potential of the port project subject to the location factors evaluation system, a 30% possible figure was calculated and the contribution to the development of the city centre was analyzed.

Hambantota is the second port in Sri Lanka and Hambantota town is developing as a port city. Originally, Hambantota town consisted of low-density population, under utilization of land, low developed areas and low human and physical resources. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to explore the interactive relationship between the port and the port city of Hambantota. Key research findings about the construction stage and operating stage activities show a positive relationship between the port and the port city.