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Logistics

Sri Lanka exporters, importers battle high rates, box shortfalls to maintain trade lifeline

Sri Lanka's exporters and importers are working against multiple global and domestic disruptions in logistics in the pos...

April 23, 2021 6 min read

SriLankan Airlines to fly to Kenya, connecting East Africa to Asia

State-run SriLankan Airlines said it will start flying to Nairobi, Kenya from April 22, taking traffic from East Africa ...

April 22, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lankan aircraft hit from behind

Sri Lankan airlines said one of its aircraft parked at Malé airport in the Maldives had been hit from behind, damaging ...

April 22, 2021 1 min read

Uranium ship leaves Sri Lanka's Hambantota port

A ship loaded with Uranium bound for China which had docked at Sri Lanka's Hambantota Port for emergency repairs had lef...

April 21, 2021 1 min read
SriLankan Airlines denies TU action for flight delays

SriLankan Airlines has recently witnessed delays due raft of technical issues in Colombo and foreign airports

Sri Lanka embarkation tax on ferry services cut: Corrected

Round trip ticket on ferry service between Sri Lanka and India will be reduced from 60 dollars to 5 dollars

SriLankan Airlines starts thrice-weekly non-stop flights to Guangzhou

ECONOMYNEXT - SriLankan Airlines is introducing thrice weekly non-stop flights from Guangzhou to Colombo from January 20...

January 28, 2016 2 min read

Emirates announces fifth daily flight to Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT –Emirates Airline said it plans to introduce an additional daily service between Dubai and Colombo in...

January 27, 2016 1 min read

IRCON sees Sri Lanka rail upgrade investments at US$1.5bn

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will need investments of about 1.5 billion US dollars to upgrade the rest of its railway ...

January 27, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka No. 1 importer of Japanese used cars

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka was the top importer of used cars from Japan in terms of value in 2015 with imports being...

January 25, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka vehicle registrations slow in December, Maruti down

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's vehicle registrations slowed to 54,139 units in December 2015 from a high of 61,864 in Novembe...

January 25, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka monorail plan to suburbs not feasible: minister

ECONOMYNEXT - A planned monorail along a key traffic corridor from Colombo to the suburb of Malabe is not feasible until...

January 24, 2016 3 min read

Sri Lanka Hambantota port investments as private-public partnerships

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will make a request for proposals for investments in the southern Hambantota port industr...

January 21, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka seeks partner for Colombo container terminal

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is seeking a partner for Colombo's partly built second deep draught container terminal that will...

January 20, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka to seek new investors for Hambantota port industries

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka will call for fresh investment proposals for an industrial zone adjacent to Hambantota port late...

January 19, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka Ports Authority grows container volumes ending slump

ECONMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's state run container terminals in Colombo has grown its container volumes in the last quarter of...

January 18, 2016 2 min read
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Sri Lanka Shipping buys tug, eyes niche businesses

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka Shipping Co. Ltd said it has bought a new 75 ton bollard pull tug to serve Colombo port o...

January 16, 2016 2 min read

China's Cosco Shipyard and CHEC eye Sri Lanka drydock

ECONOMYNEXT - China's Cosco Shipyard Group Company Ltd and China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd are studying the feasib...

January 15, 2016 1 min read

ADB approves $175m loan for Sri Lanka road improvements

ECONOMYNEXT – The Asian Development Bank said it has approved a loan of 175 million US dollars to improve rural r...

January 13, 2016 1 min read

Qatar Airways in biggest ever promotion

ECONOMYNEXT - Doha, Qatar based, Qatar Airways said it had started the biggest promotion in its its history giving disco...

January 13, 2016 1 min read

Maersk Line said looking to invest in Sri Lanka container facility

ECONOMYNEXT - Maersk Line, the world’s biggest container carrier, is looking to invest in a new container facilit...

January 13, 2016 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines retires last Airbus A340

ECONOMYNEXT - SriLankan Airlines, the first Asian airline to operate the four-engine Airbus A340 aircraft, said it has r...

January 7, 2016 2 min read

China Exim Bank, HNB to fund Sri Lanka expressway extension

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will borrow 360 million US dollars from the Exim Bank of China and 63.58 million dollars ...

January 7, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka to revive port business as debt pressures cash flows

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka Ports Authority said it will resume ship fuel sales and expand vehicle transshipment at t...

January 4, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka's state airline may have to cancel A350 orders: Minister

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's state-run SriLankan Airlines may have to cancel some of the Airbus A350 aircraft ordered by th...

December 29, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka aid hub prospects seen yielding logistics business gains

ECONOMYNEXT – With Dubai’s global humanitarian aid centre nearing capacity, southern Sri Lanka’s di...

December 28, 2015 3 min read