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Sri Lanka to buy floating pipes, OPBM spares from Yokohama Industries

The contract to supply 26 rubber pipes and spares for the OPBM was awarded to Yokohama Industrial Products Asia Pacific

September 26, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka Port Authority has to consider strategic role: Chairman

It’s crucial that we approach this strategically and define our precise role in this sector

September 25, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka India industrial zone around Trinco, maritime links mooted

Sri Lanka to participate in The Global Maritime India Summit

September 24, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka Customs confiscates 4.5 million illicit cigarettes, offers reward for whistleblowers

Reward of up to thirty percent of smuggled item's value offered

September 13, 2023 1 min read
Indian Ocean maritime potential unrealized: Sri Lanka Foreign Minister

Realizing these benefits demands collaborative efforts to foster sustainable practices

Sri Lanka Adani Terminal eyes first test vessel as India's Vizhinjam tops 150

Colombo's monopoly as a transshipment port in South Asia was broken with India's Vizhinjam Seaport

Sri Lanka's SAGT says e-clearing is now live at its Colombo port terminal

South Asia Gateway Terminals (SAGT a unit of Sri Lanka's John Keells Holdings says it has started paperless clearing of ...

May 3, 2020 2 min read

Vehicle clearance from Sri Lanka's Hambantota port slow

Vehicle clearance from Sri Lanka's Hambantota port, was still slow with only about 200 vehicles being cleared despite co...

May 1, 2020 1 min read

Coronavirus drives Sri Lanka towards e-clearance of cargo

Electronic clearance of cargo which can speed up exports and can bring Sri Lanka in line with advanced ports in the worl...

Chanka Jayasinghe
April 26, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's China-built port asks importers to clear 5,000 cars, no demurrage

Sri Lanka's Hambantota Port, operated by CM Ports of China has asked importers to clear over 5,000 vehicles that had bee...

April 25, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Colombo port hit by India, Bangladesh lockdowns

Container transshipment business at Sri Lanka’s Colombo port has been hit by lockdowns in India and Bangladesh over Co...

Tania Madies
April 19, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Colombo port swamped in 40,000 import boxes over Coronavirus

Sri Lanka's Colombo Port is swamped in over 40,000 containers after a Coroanvirus crisis disrupted economic activities a...

April 16, 2020 2 min read

As Coronavirus spreads in South Asia, Sri Lanka Navy, Air Force step up patrols

Sri Lanka's Navy and Air Force has stepped up maritime surveillance to keep out illegal entrants as Coronavirus spreads ...

Chanka Jayasinghe
April 12, 2020 2 min read

Laugfs Sri Lanka LPG tanker docks at China-run port in Hambantota

Gas Courage, a Sri Lanka registered liquefied petroleum gas tanker owned by Colombo-based by LAUGFS Maritime Services (P...

April 11, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka's China-run port stocked up to oil Coronavirus hit Indian Ocean shipping

Sri Lanka's Hambantota Port, run by China's CM Ports group with Chinese oil group Sinopec, has stocked up bunker oil to ...

April 8, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka Ports Authority gives Covid-19 hotlines to shippers, asks to take away containers

Sri Lanka's Ports Authority has asked importers to take away containers cleared by customs quickly and said concessions...

Chanka Jayasinghe
April 4, 2020 1 min read
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Sri Lanka exempts ships from entry fees, demurrage, shippers from warehouse rents

Sri Lanka has exempted ships calling at ports from entry charges and demurrage during a Coronavirus curfew, while shippe...

March 27, 2020 1 min read

China-run Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka setting up warehouses, distribution centres

Sri Lanka's Hambantota Port, operated by China's CM Ports group is setting up warehouses and distribution centres to str...

March 4, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka crew on Diamond Princess evacuated to India

Two crew members from Sri Lanka who were on board the Coronavirus hit Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan has been eva...

February 27, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Colombo Port needs US$1bn in investments: ADB

he development of the port in Sri Lanka's capital will require 1.03 billion rupees in investments until 2026, the Asian ...

February 25, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka asks Nigeria for release of 7 crew in arrested oil tanker

Sri Lanka has asked for the release of seven crew member of tanker MT Zeebrugge, which has been arrested by the Nigerian...

February 24, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka screens cruise ships for Coronavirus

Sri Lanka is screening passengers arriving in cruise ships as coronavirus infected persons were found on a liner in Japa...

February 6, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka East Terminal to operate in three months

Sri Lanka's government will make the Eastern terminal of the Colombo Port operational within 3-months, says Daya Ratnaya...

January 28, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka eyes tanks in China-run port to store fuel buffer stock

Sri Lanka's Minister for Power and Energy, Mahinda Amaraweera has asked officials to start talks with a Chinese company ...

January 16, 2020 1 min read

China terminal handles 40-pct of Sri Lanka's Colombo port box volume

Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) said it handled 2.9 million TEUs (20-ft equivalent units) in 2019, an 8...

December 31, 2019 2 min read

Marella Discovery cruise liner calls on Colombo

Marella Discovery, the largest super-luxury ship of the Marella fleet, called on Colombo Port to boost Sri Lanka's touri...

December 30, 2019 2 min read