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Sri Lanka Colombo port, container terminals assure normal services despite crisis

Normal and expected levels in the Port of Colombo, despite the economic and political crisis

May 25, 2022 2 min read

SriLankan Airlines owes CPC US$300mn, but no arrears from 2019: Minister

During the past two years they have paid for all the supplies made

May 24, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka should privatize SriLankan Airlines fast: Advocata

The national carrier has racked up losses of 372 billion rupees since management control

May 24, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka PM wants to privatize SriLankan Airlines

I propose that the loss making Sri Lankan Airlines be privatized

May 16, 2022 1 min read
Policy decision on SriLankan Airlines restructure to be taken after elections

Attempts to find a buyer for the airline so far has failed.

Sri Lanka calls bids to develop Mannar North pier on BOT basis

Mannar will be Sri Lanka's seventh port.

New attitudes key for Sri Lanka to be logistics hub: Harsha

ECONOMYNEXT – Changing attitudes towards global integration and removing barriers to trade are important if Sri L...

October 13, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka says Airbus shares blame for soured deal amid corruption scandal

Airbus Industrie, which made a controversial sale of A350 aircraft to loss-making state-run SriLankan Airlines which it ...

October 13, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s Walkers gets ADB loan for shipyard project

ECONOMYNEXT – The Asian Development bank (ADB) has approved a US$4 million loan to Walkers Colombo Shipyard (Pvt)...

October 12, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lankan firms told to upskill workers, collect data

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan logistics companies need to invest to improve the skills of their workers to meet new em...

October 6, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka to try again to set up ferry service with India

Sri Lanka will recall expressions of interest to set up a ferry service between Colombo port and Tuticorin in India, Inf...

October 4, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lankan logistics firms told to go digital to stay competitive

Sri Lankan logistics companies need to embrace disruptive digital technologies to remain competitive and gain an edge, t...

October 4, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka gets World Bank loan for safer roads project

ECONOMYNEXT – The World Bank will give Sri Lanka a $125 million loan for a new project that will deliver better a...

September 29, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s Walkers Shipyard launches tug

ECONOMYNEXT – Walkers Colombo Shipyard (Pvt) Ltd, a subsidiary of Sri Lanka’s MTD Walkers PLC group, said ...

September 28, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka to allow quadri-cycles: minister

Sri Lanka will allow the registration of quadri-cycles as a safer alternative to the ubiquitous three-wheeler taxis, Tra...

September 21, 2017 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines in accommodation deal with Booking.com

ECONOMYNEXT - SriLankan Airlines said it has entered into a partnership with Booking.com, the world’s largest acc...

September 20, 2017 1 min read
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Sri Lanka auditor queries payments on road project

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Auditor General’s Department has queried what it called contention paymen...

September 18, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka to call investors for property and multimodal transport hub

Sri Lanka will call competitive tenders to hand over a 9 acre land (about 4 hectares) in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo for...

September 15, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard to build cable ship

ECONOMYNEXT – Colombo Dockyard has begun building a cable-laying vessel for Kokusai Cable Ship Co. Ltd., the Sri ...

September 8, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Expolanka unit sued by US logistics firm

RCS Logistics, a New Jersey USA based firm said it had sued a New York based unit of Sri Lanka-based Expolanka Holdings ...

September 7, 2017 1 min read

Range anxiety may reduce in Sri Lanka as Nissan turns new Leaf

On Wednesday, Japanese giant Nissan unveiled a new electric car with an extended range and semi-autonomous driving funct...

September 6, 2017 4 min read

Sri Lanka Shipping Corporation in trouble after controversial China vessel deal

Sri Lanka's state-run Ceylon Shipping Corporation Ltd has warned that ships ordered from China in 2014 were overpriced a...

September 1, 2017 3 min read

Sri Lanka drives cattle off the road to tackle traffic

Sri Lanka today announced a crack down on cattle roaming the streets of Colombo and its suburbs in a bid to reduce traff...

August 31, 2017 1 min read

Hayleys buys Sri Lanka Shipping Company for Rs4.9bn

Diversified Hayleys group said its logistics division had bought Sri Lanka Shipping Company Limited for 4.9 billion rupe...

August 29, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Colombo container transhipment up 5.8-pct

Sri Lanka's Colombo port handled 2.95 million containers, up 6.1 percent from a year earlier, with transhipment volumes ...

August 28, 2017 1 min read

European airlines consolidating amid low cost pressure

A dogfight over the assets of troubled Alitalia and Air Berlin heralds a new shake-up in the European airline industry -...

August 27, 2017 4 min read