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Sri Lanka's Hayleys Free Zone says waste containers re-exported to UK

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February 21, 2022 1 min read

Sri Lanka warned of 'kota uda' vehicles as forex crisis bites spare parts

If the transportation sector grinds to a halt, that would have a severe impact on exports and tourism

February 18, 2022 2 min read

SriLankan Airlines pilots on industrial action over 189 dollar rate, salary cuts

There is gap between official and unofficial exchange rates

February 15, 2022 3 min read

Sri Lanka based Expolanka Holdings net up 400-pct

Freight rates elevated

January 28, 2022 1 min read
Sri Lanka to hold key security units in airport deal with India-Russia consortium

Sri Lanka will stop losses from Mattala Airport after Indian-Russian consortium starts operation

Sri Lanka gets $318mn Indian loan to modernise railways

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s finance ministry Tuesday signed an agreement with India’s Export- Import ...

June 6, 2017 1 min read

Parakrama Dissanayake made Sri Lanka Ports Authority boss

Parakrama Dissanayake, a veteran shipping professional has been appointed Chairman of Sri Lanka Ports Authority by the n...

June 3, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka JKH group to set up centralised distribution center

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s John Keells Holdings group is setting up a centralised distribution center to se...

June 2, 2017 2 min read

Drunk said to be Sri Lankan national disrupts Malaysia Airlines flight from Melbourne

A Malaysia Airlines flight from Melbourned to Kuala Lumpur was forced to turn back after a passenger dried to enter the ...

June 1, 2017 1 min read

SriLankan expands network to Yangon in deal with Myanmar Airways

ECONOMYNEXT – SriLankan Airlines will expand its network to Yangon in a codeshare partnership with Myanmar Airway...

May 30, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Expolanka March net profit up 70-pct

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka’s Expolanka Holdings said March 2017 quarter net profit rose 70% to Rs255 million from a ...

May 30, 2017 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines to fly direct to Melbourne

State-run SriLankan Airlines will fly to Melbourne, Australia, daily from October targeting ethnic and international tra...

May 29, 2017 1 min read

Only a professional to head Sri Lanka Ports Authority, new minister says

ECONOMYNEXT – The new Minister of Ports and Shipping Mahinda Samarasinghe has said only a professional will be ap...

May 24, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Colonial Motors gets Piaggio deal for Vespa scooters

ECONOMYNEXT - Colonial Motors (Ceylon) Ltd. has been appointed the authorised importer and distributor for the Italian b...

May 23, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka Railways losses down to Rs6.8bn in 2016

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s state-run railway reduced operating losses to 6.8 billion rupees in 2016 from a ...

May 23, 2017 2 min read
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Sri Lanka's Colombo Dockyard returns to profit

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard returned to profit in the March 2017 quarter, with earnings of ...

May 17, 2017 1 min read

Air India to fly direct from Varanasi to Sri Lanka's Colombo from August: Modi

ECONOMYNEXT – Air India will operate direct flights between the Sri Lankan capital Colombo and the Buddhist pilgr...

May 12, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka Transport Board cuts loss to Rs1.1bn in 2016

ECONOMYNEXT – Losses at the state-owned Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) reduced in 2016 to Rs. 1.1 billion from ...

May 9, 2017 2 min read

Airline partners sought for SriLankan after TPG drops out

Sri Lanka will negotiate directly with airlines in a bid to find a strategic partner after TPG, a US-based private equit...

May 6, 2017 2 min read

TPG turns away from Sri Lanka state airline

TPG, a US based private equity firm that was in talks to invest in state-run SriLankan Airlines had decided not to inves...

May 5, 2017 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines releases partial data on losses in 2016

State-run SriLankan Airlines has released data of some of the losses it made during 2016 saying 6.49 billion rupees befo...

May 5, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Mattala airport handles 4,700 passengers in 2016

The Mattala International Airport, designed and built by China with interest-bearing loans serviced by Sri Lanka, has ha...

May 3, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Colombo container terminal tender winner by end May

Sri Lanka has promised India that the winner of a competitive tender to build a container terminal in Colombo port will ...

May 1, 2017 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines revises flight times over Indian airspace closure

SrILankan Airlines has changed the arrival and departure times of several flights overflying India on April 27 due to th...

April 26, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka box volume up 2.4-pct in Feb 2017

Container volumes handled in Sri Lanka's Colombo port rose 2.4 percent from a year earlier to 449,977 twenty foot equiva...

April 24, 2017 1 min read