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Sri Lanka to price regulate trishaw, school, office transport after currency crisis

The NTC powers will be expanded from buses to other forms of transport

July 30, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s second airport idling in tourism off season: official

Mattala Airport was dubbed as World's emptiest airport due to no flights landing

July 30, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka combats flight of air traffic controllers after currency crisis

Salary hike and new hires to combat ATC drain

July 30, 2024 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

July 29, 2024 4 min read
SriLankan Airlines draws India travellers with Axis Bank link

Axis Bank credit and debit cardholders will enjoy an exclusive 10% discount on both Business Class and Economy Class

Sri Lanka loses regional deconsolidation hub status for e-commerce?

Sri Lanka had been a deconsolidation hub for online sales before the trade clampdown

India says not associated with Sri Lanka’s WCT decision

The Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka has disassociated itself with Colombo’s announcement suggesting that New Delhi...

March 3, 2021 1 min read
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SriLankan Airlines carries 1.2mn kilos cargo to the Maldives in Feb 21

State-run SriLankan Airlines said it had carried 1.2 million kilograms of cargo to the Maldives in February 2021 includi...

March 2, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka will join India’s Adani Group to develop and operate the West Container Terminal In Colo...

Sri Lanka will join hands with a giant Indian conglomerate in a Build, Operate and Transfer deal to develop the West Con...

March 2, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka rupee plunges as car registrations collapse under import controls

Sri Lanka rupee has fallen from 186 to around 194 to the US dollar in January 2021 as new car imports and registrations ...

March 1, 2021 2 min read

China's Sinopec unit says Sri Lanka bunkering made competitive, LMS first customer

Sinopec Fuel Oil Lanka Limited (SFOL), a unit of China's Sinopec group located in Hambantota port, is making Sri Lanka's...

February 28, 2021 3 min read

Kuwait's Jazeera Airways begins flying to Sri Lanka

Kuwait's Jazeera Airways made its maiden flight to Colombo, adding to operators flying to Sri Lanka as the Indian Ocean ...

February 25, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka airport vaccinates frontline staff against Coronavirus

Sri Lanka has started to vaccinate frontline aviation sector staff on a voluntary basis, the Indian Ocean island's state...

February 21, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka extends landing and parking fee waivers at Mattala, Ratmalana airports

Sri Lanka has extended a waiver of parking and landing fees for charter operators at two airports in the country until ...

Mahadiya Hamza
February 16, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka gets 1,000 air passengers a day as scheduled carriers and charters return

Sri Lanka is getting about 1,000 passengers a day including tourists and returning residents after airports formally ope...

Mahadiya Hamza
February 12, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka withdrew from East Terminal deal due to dispute over terms: Minister

Sri Lanka withdrew from an agreement to jointly complete East Container Terminal in Colombo port with India and Japan du...

Imesh Ranasinghe
February 12, 2021 1 min read
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Sri Lanka forum on port development, investment or sale

Sri Lanka port development will be the focus of a forum conducted by Advocata Institute on February 12 amid attempts to ...

February 10, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka has not told India and Japan it is pulling out of Port deal

Sri Lankan government is yet to officially tell India and Japan that it is withdrawing from the trilateral agreement tha...

February 9, 2021 2 min read
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Sri Lanka's Mattala Airport welcomes Air Astana, 2,500 tourists in 2021

Sri Lanka's Mattala Airport saw the maiden flight of Air Astana, flag carrier of Kazakhstan carrying 160 tourists under ...

February 7, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka to offer West Terminal to India, Japan, ECT to stay with state agency

Sri Lanka will invite interested parties to develop a greenfield container terminal in Colombo port while a partially bu...

February 2, 2021 2 min read
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India bluntly asks Sri Lanka to honour deal on East Container Terminal

“The commitment of Government of Sri Lanka in this regard has been conveyed several times in the recent past, includin...

February 1, 2021 3 min read
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Port Unions call off strike on Mahinda’s assurances that ECT will not be given to foreigners

The coalition of Trades Unions protesting against the handing over of the East Container Terminal to a foreign company h...

February 1, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka will not sell or lease East Terminal: PM

Sri Lanka will not sell or lease the East Container Terminal Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said as trade union opposi...

January 31, 2021 2 min read

SriLankan Airlines saves US$150mn on leases, gets equity

State-run SriLankan airlines has re-negotiated several lease contracts saving the airline 150 million dollars over five ...

January 31, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Expolanka Holdings profits soar amid pandemic disruptions

Profits at Sri Lanka's Expolanka Holdings Plc soared to 4.5 billion rupees in the December 2020 quarter, up from 15 fold...

January 29, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka to invite investors for BOT port warehouse complex

Sri Lanka's Minister of Ports and Shipping was given the go ahead to call investors to build a warehouse in the capital ...

January 27, 2021 1 min read