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Sri Lanka's China-run port eyes fertilizer transshipment with Russian billionaire

Sri Lanka's China-run Hambantota Port has discussed fertilizer transshipment with Russian billionaire Andrey Igorevich M...

March 26, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Adani-WCT terminal is a private deal without tender, not govt-to-govt: opposition

Handing over the West Container Terminal of Sri Lanka's Colombo port to Adani group is not a government-to-government co...

March 20, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka container transshipment down 3.3-pct, domestic down 14.4-pct

Container throughput at Sri Lanka's ports fell 5.2 percent to 6.85 million twenty foot equivalent unit in 2020 with a st...

March 18, 2021 1 min read

SriLankan Engineering to maintain FITS Aviation Airbus freighters

SriLankan Engineering said it had struck a deal to maintain Airbus A320 family freighters operated by Sri Lanka based FI...

March 17, 2021 1 min read
Colombo-bound SriLankan flight delayed after taking off in Melbourne over technical fault

SriLankan has faced many delays in the recent past owning to technical issues

Sri Lanka to call investors for Jaffna airport PPP

Sri Lanka is close to awarding the management of Mattala airport to a consortium of Russian and Indian companies

SriLankan Airlines operates special flight to replace damaged plane

ECONOMYNEXT - SriLankan Airlines said it dispatched a special flight from Colombo to Bangkok Wednesday morning to bring ...

December 23, 2015 1 min read

In-flight news updates from SriLankan Airlines

ECONOMYNEXT - SriLankan Airlines said it has begun offering live news updates while in flight on the latest Thales Avant...

December 21, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka port container volumes up 6-pct, cross 5 mln mark

ECONOMYNEXT – Container volumes at Colombo, Sri Lanka’s main port, crossed the five million mark Monday, h...

December 21, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka to buy new flight information management system

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka will call international bids for a new fight information management system, cabinet spokesman Mi...

December 18, 2015 1 min read

ADB to do Sri Lanka rail electrification feasibility

ECONOMYNEXT – The Asian Development Bank has agreed to fund a feasibility study on upgrading the suburban railway...

December 15, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka mulls smart cards, GPS for public transport

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka’s new government is working to improve public transport as a viable alternative to privat...

December 14, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka mulls relaxing airspace restrictions

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is considering relaxing air space restrictions slapped during wartime as part of an overall avia...

December 14, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka state railway land said seized by politicians

ECONOMYNEXT - A Sri Lankan parliamentarian has called for a probe into how land owned by the los-making state railway w...

December 11, 2015 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Mattala airport to offer aircraft parking

ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka will soon offer aircraft parking services from the country's second international airport in Matt...

December 11, 2015 1 min read

Competitive bids for Sri Lanka expressway project

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s new government has decided to call for competitive bids to build sections of a n...

December 10, 2015 1 min read
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Holcim Sri Lanka unit to transport coal by train

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of ministers has approved a deal between cement multinational Holcim Lan...

December 10, 2015 1 min read

Uber launches ride sharing service in Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT – Uber has launched its ride sharing service in Sri Lanka saying it was drawn by people already looki...

December 9, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka ‘port city’ traffic warning

ECONOMYNEXT – A proposed ‘port city’ next to the Sri Lankan capital Colombo will generate so much tr...

December 8, 2015 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines resumes flights to Chennai

ECONOMYNEXT - SriLankan Airlines said it will resume operations to Chennai International Airport tomorrow following its ...

December 7, 2015 1 min read

Premachandra appointed Managing Director of Sri Lanka Ports Authority

ECONOMYNEXT - Sarathkumara Premachandra has been appointed as the Managing Director of Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA),...

December 7, 2015 2 min read

Sri Lanka new govt accused of unsolicited bids in transport, lacking transparency

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s new government has been accused of going against pledges of transparency and ado...

December 7, 2015 13 min read

Sri Lanka transport reforms seen delayed by politics

ECONOMYNEXT – A Sri Lankan transport expert has called for a change in the country’s policy on vehicle imp...

December 6, 2015 3 min read

Chennai airport closure forces SriLankan Airlines to cancel more flights

ECONOMYNEXT - SriLankan Airlines said it has been compelled to cancel more flights after Indian aviation authorities an...

December 5, 2015 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines to split business, offer VRS

ECONOMYNEXT – SriLankan Airlines aims to split its operating model, placing its engineering and ground handling u...

December 4, 2015 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines cancels more flights to Chennai

ECONOMYNEXT – SriLankan Airlines has cancelled fourteen more flights between Colombo and Chennai because of the e...

December 3, 2015 1 min read