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Sri Lanka unions threaten to cripple economy against IMF-backed reforms

“If the government still doesn’t get it, at midnight on March 14 all trains will stop, as will power supply."

March 13, 2023 5 min read

China Merchants, Sinopec teams seeking Sri Lanka investments: embassy

CM Ports is already running Hambantota Port

March 12, 2023 1 min read

Seventeen ships turned back after Colombo Port anti-tax protests, claims minister

"The result of the protests will be the strengthening of those ports and the collapse of ours," he said

March 8, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka to crush illegally imported vehicle parts to be sold as scrap metal

Most illegal spare parts that need a license are imported by mixing them with legal spare parts

February 21, 2023 2 min read
Sri Lanka's China-backed Hambantota Port aims at container relay business

As part of its seaside strategy, the port is entering the relay cargo market

Sri Lanka’s Expolanka diversifies into tech products shipments, expands warehousing

Sri Lanka’s Expolanka Holdings is diversifying its core logistics business into moving technology products, in ad...

Tania Madies
June 28, 2019 2 min read

Colombo Dockyard delivers Japanese cable ship, eyes Sri Lanka dredger deal

ECONOMYNEXT – Colombo Dockyard has delivered a submarine cable-laying ship for Japan’s Kokusai Cable Ship ...

June 22, 2019 3 min read

Sri Lanka’s port master plan stresses efficiency to stay competitive

Sri Lanka’s new national port master plan has recommended that Colombo port move fast to improve efficiency and i...

June 21, 2019 2 min read

Hambantota positioned as Sri Lanka's multi-purpose port

A Chinese-managed Hambantota port on Sri Lanka’s south coast is being positioned as a multi-purpose port with fac...

June 12, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka, Japan, India ink memo for East container terminal

Sri Lanka, Japan and India has inked a memorandum of co-operation to operate a container terminal in Sri Lanka's Colombo...

May 28, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s CICT invests in dangerous goods storage facility

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Colombo International Container Terminal (CICT) said it has opened a Dangerous G...

May 14, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka Ports Authority profits down in 2018 amid higher forex losses

ECONOMYNEXT – Pre-tax profits at state-run Sri Lanka Ports Authority fell 27.5 percent to 8.7 billion rupees in 2...

May 3, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Hambantota Port signs deals with vehicle carriers

ECONOMYNEXT - Hambantota International Port Group (HIPG) said it has signed Terminal Service Agreements (TSAs) with top ...

May 2, 2019 2 min read

China's Sinopec to operate Sri Lanka's Hambantota oil tank farm

China's Sinopec Fuel Oil Sales Co. Limited (SFO) has won a tender to operate a bunker oil tank farm in the Hambantota Po...

April 17, 2019 3 min read

Sri Lanka Ports Authority to buy more cranes

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) is to buy three Ship to Shore (STS) cranes from China under the ex...

April 11, 2019 2 min read
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Sri Lanka investment agency opens centre in Hambantota port

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Board of Investment (BOI) has set up a ‘one-stop’ service centre at...

April 3, 2019 2 min read

Student enrolment propels 40-pct growth in Sri Lanka logistics institute membership

ECONOMYNEXT – Membership of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) in Sri Lanka grew 40 percen...

April 3, 2019 2 min read

GAC Sri Lanka gets new chief, eyes outsourcing business

ECONOMYNEXT – Ravi Edirisinghe has been appointed director and chief executive in Sri Lanka of GAC Group, a globa...

March 25, 2019 2 min read

60-pct foreign ownership in Sri Lanka shipping, Maersk keen on East Terminal

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will raise foreign ownership in ship agencies to 60 percent in the first stage of liberal...

March 15, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka Ports Authority to buy three cranes from China

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority is to buy three ship-to-shore gantry cranes from China’s Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Ind...

March 14, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Dockyard eyes LNG storage, hi-tech, smaller vessels

ECONOMYNEXT – Colombo Dockyard, Sri Lanka’s listed shipyard, is changing its shipbuilding strategy and aim...

March 13, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka shipping liberalisation before presidential poll: Mangala

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government will implement delayed plans to liberalise the shipping sector, allow...

March 6, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka's JKH starts building US$14mn logistics park

Sri Lanka's John Keells Holdings has started building a 14 million US dollar logistics park which will provide services ...

March 1, 2019 1 min read

Maersk mulls increasing container handling in Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT - Maersk A/S, the world’s biggest container shipping line, is considering increasing its container ha...

February 28, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka to make Colombo ‘smart port’ with automated functions

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s ports and shipping ministry said it will spend 929 million rupees to modernise i...

February 25, 2019 2 min read