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SriLankan Airline's losses have accumulated to 372 billion rupees by end March 2021.
Three-wheel drivers have been significantly affected by the fuel shortage, price hike
In the next 2 to 5 years the two terminals will add 7 million TEUS in capacity
Agents ask to pay port charges in rupees instead
A new board of directors has also been appointed for the state-owned airline.
High-end and heavy vehicles rise
Sri Lanka has proposed the removal of ban on foreign ownership of shipping and freight forwarding firms which was preven...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government will remove restrictions on foreign ownership of ship agency and freight ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka aims to convert all its vehicles into those powered by non-fossil fuels with import taxes...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Colombo port expects to handle six million containers this year, most of which w...
Sri Lanka and India will form a joint venture to run the island's second international airport in Mattala, while a Chine...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan transport professionals are lobbying for rail transport priority, saying the government ...
Sri Lanka's Colombo Port has moved up two places to become the 25th busiest container port, next to Vietnam's Ho Chi Min...
Sri Lanka’s government has chosen two South Korean engineering consultancy firms to do a pre-feasibility study fo...
Keppel Telecommunications and Transportation Ltd (KT&T), a Singapore listed company said it will sell a 25 percent stake...
Container volumes handled at Sri Lanka's Colombo port rose 6.3 percent in the eight months to August 2017, with tranship...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 331.7485 | 330.8514 |
| UK Pound | 443.7468 | 438.3450 |
| Euro | 372.5204 | 371.0168 |
| Yen | 2.0969 | 2.0916 |
| Aus Dollar | 233.0533 | 231.1659 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.4948 | 3.4202 |
| Korean Won | 0.2499 | 0.2479 |
| Oman Rial | 861.6397 | 859.3320 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.4403 | 88.0955 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.3209 | 90.0766 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 5,656.91 | -0.43% |
| CSE All Share | 19,927.30 | -0.28% |
| Turnover Rs | 1457.79 million | 1193.67 million |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 7.61 | 7.84 |
| 6-m bill | 7.91 | 8.26 |
| 12-m bill | 8.23 | 8.3 |
| 3-yr bond | 9.24 | 9.25 |
| 5-yr bond | 9.82 | 9.56 |
| 8-yr bond | 10.50 | 10.48 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
State-run SriLankan Airlines said it had started daily direct flights to Melbourne from October 29, where a many immigra...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena had asked Qatar to partner with the island's troubled national ...
Sri Lanka has received responses from nine parties for expressions of interest called to study five light rail transit l...
Registrations of new vehicles in Sri Lanka vehicles in Sri Lanka fell sharply in September 2017, with cars falling to th...
Sri Lanka's Navy said it had rescued seven crew members of an Indian merchant vessel which sank on route to the Maldives...
MV Maersk Milan, a Denmark flagged vessel owned by Maersk has called at Colombo Port in Sri Lanka, making it the biggest...
ECONOMYNEXT - The Asian Development Bank is helping Sri Lanka prepare a railway ticketing and seat reservation system to...
Transport Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said the government wants to severely restrict the import of three-wheelers a...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved technical assistance to help prepare a master plan fo...
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