Only days after the long and bitter struggle with the Tamil Tigers was brought to a resolution, global container terminal operators are sharpening their sabres for a long and bitter battle over Colombo's next container terminalrnThe combatants have arrived from far away, but the prize is not the terminal itself but access to the potentially huge Indian transhipment market. Saturation in China has left HPH keen to prove its future does not lie solely in the race to beat Singapore to the transhipment crown. There's more to HPH than Hong Kong.rnSimilarly, Singapore's PSA dominates the southeast Asian region and has become the transhipment hub of choice for India's east coast ports. In the first round of bidding for the Colombo terminal in 2007, a PSA International-led consortium linked with Sri Lanka's own Aitken Spence emerged as the frontrun-ner. But the bid was threatened by offers of higher throughput by HPH.
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