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Thailand explores Hambantota Port ahead of FTA, box handling

The port’s plans to commence its first phase of container operations was also discussed

April 1, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka port development taken new turn with China help: Prime Minister

"Colombo port will become a hub, a new developed port with financial instruments that could cater to new demands"

March 30, 2024 2 min read

Xi meets Sri Lanka PM as China eyes main Colombo airport development 

Prime Minister Gunawardena is on a six-day official visit to China

March 28, 2024 3 min read

EOIs to be called to select party to promote Sri lanka flagged ships

To promote the island as a location for registering merchant vessels.

March 26, 2024 1 min read
Sri Lanka's ECT welcomes MSC Mariella in largest ever container vessel call

Sri Lanka Ports Authority said its East Container Terminal had seen the its largest ever container vessel to call when i

First used car shipment from Japan to Sri Lanka made on Seven Seals RORO carrier

Toyota Land Cruiser, Prado, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota Raize, Honda Vezel, Daihatsu, and Suzuki Wagon Rs were brought

Adani India to have 51-of Sri Lanka port terminal, JKH a 'material stake'

India's Adani Ports said it will have a 51 percent stake in a container terminal in Colombo port, while Sri Lanka's John...

March 16, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka's China-run port drives vessel lay-up business

Sri Lanka's China-run Hambantota Port said it is supporting a vessel lay-up business expanding the island's role as a ma...

March 15, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka Ports Authority can raise funds from stock market patriots for ECT: Minister

Sri Lanka Port Authority can raise capital from the Colombo Stock Exchange to build East Container Terminal if there is ...

March 9, 2021 2 min read

India did not nominate party for WCT, Sri Lanka says had direct talks with Adani

Sri Lanka had direct talks with Adani Ports group over giving a concession to build and operate Colombo Port's West Cont...

March 9, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka's China-run port sees RO-RO vehicle transshipment racing ahead

Sri Lanka's China-run Hambantota port, which is emerging as a RO-RO transshipment hub said it seeing rapid growth in veh...

March 7, 2021 2 min read

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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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

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

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

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
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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 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

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

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