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Colombo has a long history as a port city. Its story is an unlikely one: Colombo’s harbour is not naturally good BUT it’s a port that was considered a strategic location in British imperial shipping routes. So here’s the key distinction: “Most ports have poor harbours, and many fine harbours see few ships.” (Murphey in Brides of the Sea<\/em>1989) A harbour is a physical concept but the port is economic. Herein was Colombo’s strength…economics and its proximity to major shipping networks.<\/p>\n

The creation of Colombo’s breakwater was considered a breakthrough in port technology and by the late nineteenth century it was one of the great modern ports that emerged in Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colombo has a long history as a port city. Its story is an unlikely one: Colombo’s harbour is not naturally good BUT it’s a port that was considered a strategic location in British imperial shipping routes. So here’s the key distinction: “Most ports have poor harbours, and many fine harbours see few ships.” (Murphey in … Continue reading Colombo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}