Even bunkering has to be done from Colombo. Trinco is then an ideal port to be used in a regional conflict. The hot spots extend from India, Pakistan to Taiwan and North Korea. To Norway, Trinco is the ideal port to achieve their economic and maritime aspirations. In examination of the Norwegian economy and the decline of their main industry, shipping, are relevant, to put the pieces together in the jig-zaw puzzle.
Shipping is Norway's principal industry.
Norway's merchant fleet, 3rd biggest in the world with more than 2000 vessels aggregating more than 18 million tons, is the nations prime earner of foreign currency. Their fleet is dependent on the carriage of other countries cargo. Trinco could then be an ideal location to be used as a distribution centre to the region. OBO's could be used to transport bulk cargoes such as wheat, fertilizer, cement, crude oil, while car carriers could carry even cars to be distributed to the countries of the region, such as Bangladesh, Burma, India, Pakistan and even to Middle East. Ship building and manufacture of marine equipment were also major industries in Norway until Japan, South Korea and China beat them.