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Sri Lanka airport will need tech to cope as volumes set to top pre-Covid levels: SITA

Self-service, biometrics

July 18, 2024 3 min read

Sri Lanka mulls agency to regulate transport of goods and services on inland waterways

"Transportation by waterways can be encouraged as a remedy to reduce the traffic congestion"

July 17, 2024 2 min read

Talks on resuming Japan funded Sri Lanka airport terminal next week: Minister

Key benefit of finishing OCC restructuring is re-starting stalled projects

July 4, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka port trade unions oppose increase in female gantry operators: Minister

Unions have protested the increase of female gantry crane operators

July 3, 2024 1 min read
Public views sought on SriLankan Airlines, Airport and Aviation Services

Committee seeks submissions from employees, staff and general public concerning issues related to both institutes

Sri Lanka, India and Japan firms to invest in East Terminal: President

Several companies from India, Sri Lanka and Japan will invest in the East Container Terminal of Colombo Port President G...

January 25, 2021 1 min read

Bulk carrier MV Eurosun refloated in high tide: Sri Lanka Navy

MV Eurosun, a Liberian flagged vessel, which ran aground in shallows 5.5 nautical miles (10 kilometres) off Sri Lanka's ...

January 25, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka Ports Authority starts electronic payments to clear imports

State-run Sri Lanka Ports Authority said payments for imports could now be made electronically through the internet.

January 24, 2021 1 min read

Aground bulk carrier MV Eurosun's hull not breached: Sri Lanka Navy

Sri Lanka Navy said it had not found a breach in the hull of MV Eurosun, a Liberian flagged 33,000 dead weight tonne bul...

January 24, 2021 1 min read

Bulk carrier MV Eurosun runs aground off Sri Lanka coast

MV Eurosun, a Liberian registered 33,000 dead weight tonne bulk carrier has run aground off Sri Lanka's southern coast w...

Chanka Jayasinghe
January 23, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka airport re-opening draws JetStar, Bangladesh, Pakistan carriers

Sri Lanka is seeing interest from new airlines from South Asia as regular pre-Coronavirus carriers resumed scheduled fli...

January 21, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka expects tourists from Germany, Dubai as airports re-open

Sri Lanka is expecting the first tourists from Germany and Dubai after Colombo and Mattala airports re-opened for touris...

January 21, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka Air Force boosts canine capacity

Twenty canines brought from the Netherlands and trained to detect explosives and drugs with support from the Civil Aviat...

January 15, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka port terminal: India's Adani group and partners to hold 49-pct

India's Adani group and their partners will hold 49 percent and the Sri Lanka government a majority of 51 percent in a c...

January 14, 2021 2 min read
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Sri Lanka airport gets international health safety certification

Sri Lanka's main international airport in Katunayake has been certified as having complied to internationally recognized...

Mahadiya Hamza
January 13, 2021 1 min read
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Sri Lanka begins seafood exports to Ukraine from Mattala

Sri Lanka has begun exporting seafood to Ukraine on a new route from Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport to Kiev ope...

Mahadiya Hamza
January 9, 2021 1 min read
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Sri Lanka President, India's Jaishankar discuss East Container Terminal, LNG plant

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapasksa had discussed the East Container Terminal of the Colombo Port and a liquefied ...

January 7, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka seeking investor for East Terminal, expert committee report awaited: Ports Minister

Sri Lanka is seeking an investor to complete the East Container Terminal of the Colombo Port and a report from a technic...

Imesh Ranasinghe
January 6, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka waives landing and parking fees to Mattala and Ratmalana airports

Sri Lanka is waiving landing and parking fees of international flights to Mattala and Ratmalana airports in a bid to enc...

December 27, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka reverses travel relaxation after new Covid-19 strain Foreign Ministry says

Sri Lanka has re-imposed a rule requiring prior registration of expatriates national who want to return, after a highly ...

December 22, 2020 1 min read
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Sri Lanka nationals, dual citizens allowed back on commercial flights, paid Covid-19 quarantine

Sri Lanka nationals and dual citizens abroad who can afford paid quarantine are allowed to use commercial flights to ret...

December 21, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka port workers object to India, offer to find US$500mn for terminal

Sri Lanka port workers objecting to a plan to get Indian led investment to develop a container in Colombo have offered t...

Chanka Jayasinghe
December 19, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka returnees give duty free shopping chance after Covid-19 quarantine

Expatriate Sri Lanka nationals who arrived in the country from September 01 and December 16, 2020 will be given a chance...

December 19, 2020 1 min read
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SriLankan Catering says staff traced and tested after Coronavirus infection

SriLankan Catering said it had traced contacts and tested staff after a confirmed Coronavirus infection, which had led t...

December 17, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka plans to open airport for charters, commercial flights on December 26

Sri Lanka plans to allow charter and commercial flight from December 26, the island's aviation regulator has said.

December 15, 2020 1 min read