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Sri Lanka - India ferry to multiple destinations mulled to cut costs

With the combination of governmental support, it is now possible to run the ferry

March 11, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka to seek BOT investor for Galle leisure port

Mixed development projects would be set up on the filled land.

March 5, 2024 1 min read

Japan trains Sri Lanka Coast Guard on oil spill response

The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has trained 37 officers of the Sri Lanka Coast Guard (SLCG) on how to handle oil spills,

February 29, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka's boat builders head to Dubai

Boat builders in Sri Lanka are headed to the Dubai International Boat show to showcase their capabilities

February 28, 2024 2 min read
Sri Lanka's Colombo Dockyard says new buyer suggested for Japanese-owned shares

Will depend on finalization of other matters, including a commitment by the selected party to infuse additional capital

Coral colonizes Sri Lanka's China-backed Hambantota port

Several species corals have established themselves at the port

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
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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 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 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 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

Hambantota port builds station for Sri Lanka police

Hambantota International Port, run by China's CM Ports group as a joint venture with Sri Lanka Ports Authority said it h...

December 6, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Colombo Dockyard wins cable ship order from France

Sri Lanka's Colombo Dockyard Plc, a unit of Onomichi of Japan said it had won an order to build a cable laying and repai...

December 3, 2020 2 min read
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CMA CGM in relay transshipment at Sri Lanka's Hambantota Port

France based CMA CGM shipping group has engaged in a relay transshipment at Sri Lanka's Hambantota port with two vessels...

November 29, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka Navy to buy emergency response vessel from Colombo Dockyard

Sri Lanka Navy has been cleared to purchase a Maintenance and Emergency Response Vessel (MERV) from Colombo Dockyard Plc...

November 19, 2020 1 min read