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Sri Lanka's fuel crisis will not impact aviation services: minister

Steps have been taken to ensure the services provided to SriLankan Airlines are never disrupted, the minister said.

January 20, 2022 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Access Logistics Park gets 36-acre state land

The long lease will be based on the estimation of the Government Chief Valuer

January 19, 2022 1 min read

Sri Lanka expects to complete East Container Terminal by July 2024

Work on West Terminal to begin soon

January 12, 2022 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines reports profit in December 2021

Profits at air transportation level

January 11, 2022 2 min read
Afloat repairs at Sri Lanka's China-backed port boosted by Japan dockyard group

Colombo Dockyard to invest in new ship repair facility at Hambantota Port

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
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Sri Lanka ship fuel supplier doubled profit in 2016

ECONOMYNEXT – Profits at JCT Oil Bank, a fully owned subsidiary of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), more tha...

April 20, 2017 1 min read

Warehouse management system for Sri Lanka Ports Authority

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) is considering setting up a warehouse management system to bet...

April 19, 2017 1 min read

Labour dispute ends at Sri Lankan port terminal

ECONOMYNEXT – South Asia Gateway Terminals (SAGT), a private container terminal in Sri Lanka’s Port of Co...

April 18, 2017 2 min read

SriLankan, Japan Airlines expand codeshare, add new routes

ECONOMYNEXT - SriLankan Airlines said it is strengthening its presence in the Japanese travel market through the expansi...

April 11, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Colombo port box volume up 5.6-pct in Jan

Throughput at Sri Lanka's Colombo port rose 5.6 percent to 484,866 twenty foot equivalent units (TEUs) in January 2017 f...

April 11, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka gets Japanese help for bridge maintenance

ECONOMYNEXT – Japan has started a program to help Sri Lanka’s Road Development Authority (RDA) do proper m...

April 7, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lankan joint venture wins Rs2.5bn central expressway consultancy

ECONOMYNEXT – A consortium of Sri Lankan firms has been awarded a Rs2.5 billion consultancy contract to supervise...

April 5, 2017 2 min read

SriLankan Airlines flights back to normal after airport re-opens on April 07

ECONOMYNEXT - SriLankan Airlines will resume normal operations throughout its global route network from 7th April 2017, ...

April 5, 2017 1 min read

Ceylon Chamber, Hayleys in partnership to build Sri Lanka logistics workforce

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s main business chamber, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, has struck a partnership ...

April 5, 2017 2 min read

Tugs, navy boats fight MSC container ship fire off Sri Lanka

ECONMYNEXT - Sri Lanka Ports Authority tugs and navy fast attacks craft are trying to put out a fire on a Mediterranean ...

April 5, 2017 1 min read