Before the holder yard, the 49-year-old told the Xinhua News Agency that before his vocation with South Harbor, he had been utilized in South Africa, far from his family.
However taking after his enrollment here, Kannangara is glad to be back home and settled with his family.
Kannangara said that amid his five year job with South Harbor, he has been sent to China four times for preparing, which he esteemed.
Amid his time in China, his Chinese companions taught him numerous operational strategies which has profited him in his vocation. He additionally saw the fast development of China's economy.
Kannangara trusts that the solid bond shared amongst China and Sri Lanka will keep on benefitting both countries.
He said the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road proposed by China would likewise bring huge advancement chances to Sri Lanka and advantage the nearby individuals.
Besides, Kannangara said he esteemed the customary kinship shared amongst China and Sri Lanka, and anticipated more advancement tasks, for example, the South Harbor Terminal when constructing the oceanic Silk Road so that Sri Lanka can encourage create and profit by such an unfathomable undertaking.
A huge number of nearby representatives, as Kannangara, have increased stable job and higher pay rates amid the development and operational procedure of the South Harbor.
Xiaoqiang Zhang, general supervisor of China Harbor which is in charge of the development in Sri Lanka, told Xinhua that amid the development of the terminal, their organization straightforwardly procured 1,500 nearby laborers and made roughly 4,000 roundabout work opportunities.
They have additionally prepared an extensive number of talented laborers and related designing constructional work force, fabricating a solid human asset base for Sri Lanka to end up a global sea center point.
Colombo International Container Terminal (CICT) is a joint endeavor which is 85 percent claimed by China Merchants Holdings International Company (CMHI) and 15 percent possessed by Sri Lanka Ports Authority. The $550 million office is the biggest outside venture in the island nation so far that has been put into operation.
Since the South Harbor initiated operation in 2014, Sri Lanka's monetary and social development has been in the spotlight.
Liu said that in 2015, the throughput achieved 1.5 million twenty-feet proportionate units (TEUs), a 1.2 times build contrasted with the earlier year. This had prompted the Colombo Port accomplishing a 5 million TEUs history.
Since 2014, after the early fulfillment of the South Harbor development, the administration adequacy of Colombo Port had been essentially expanded, along these lines disposing of the moderate development circumstance.
In 2014, the Colombo Port achieved a record 14 percent and topped the rundown of the world's 30 biggest holder terminals, regarding development rate.
Under the pattern of greater vessels on the planet's delivery industry, as the main terminal that can empty vast compartments in South Asia to fill the holes of Colombo Port, the South Harbor has turned into a center point of a developing number of huge vessels.
In that capacity, Colombo's provincial transportation focus has bit by bit been made strides.
Nelson said: "We have set the 'Chinese velocity' in the development of abroad terminal and operations in Sri Lanka. With an ABC rationality of American supervision, British standard and Chinese speed, the South Harbor task was finished in a record time of 28 months, 32 months in front of timetable."
