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HIP to almost double productivity levels, with the new cranes
In the next 2 to 5 years the two terminals will add 7 million TEUS in capacity
LOLC has foreign operations and the Sri Lanka rupee fell steeply in March
Ceylon Association of Shipping Agents (CASA) has gifted 100 bicycles to the port
SeaLead launches liner service in partnership with Sri Lanka Ports Authority
The Colombo Plan, a regional inter-governmental organization with 28 countries is helping build capacity at Ports Author
Sri Lanka can will regain a majority stake in the terminal company at Hambantota port from China after 80-years for one ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Key segments of Sri Lanka’s shipping community have agreed on an anti-corruption and zero to...
ECONOMYNEXT – Container transshipment volumes at Sri Lanka’s Colombo port grew 19.8% to 2.7 million contai...
ECONOMYNEXT – Corrupt practices are is still prevalent in the shipping sector which, along with government polici...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government is committed to further opening up the economy and industry must be r...
Danish shipping line Maersk plans to offer its new ‘store-to-door’ service in Sri Lanka, under a global str...
ECONOMYNEXT – Danish shipping line Maersk has said it is waiting for Sri Lanka’s government to implement p...
ECONOMYNEXT – A pay hike demanded by stevedores unions at Colombo port after the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA)...
China has rejected charges of creating a debt trap in Sri Lanka despite gaining a 99-year lease on a port, which is much...
The Sri Lankan government has started to turn around Hambantota port, a white elepant that was draining a state port age...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 331.7485 | 330.8514 |
| UK Pound | 443.7468 | 438.3450 |
| Euro | 372.5204 | 371.0168 |
| Yen | 2.0969 | 2.0916 |
| Aus Dollar | 233.0533 | 231.1659 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.4948 | 3.4202 |
| Korean Won | 0.2499 | 0.2479 |
| Oman Rial | 861.6397 | 859.3320 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.4403 | 88.0955 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.3209 | 90.0766 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 5,656.91 | -0.43% |
| CSE All Share | 19,927.30 | -0.28% |
| Turnover Rs | 1457.79 million | 1193.67 million |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 7.61 | 7.84 |
| 6-m bill | 7.91 | 8.26 |
| 12-m bill | 8.23 | 8.3 |
| 3-yr bond | 9.24 | 9.25 |
| 5-yr bond | 9.82 | 9.56 |
| 8-yr bond | 10.50 | 10.48 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
Sri Lanka will press ahead with liberalizing the island’s shipping industry Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Chinese global port operator China Merchant Port Holdings Limited (CM Port) has paid Sri Lanka the ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Ocean Network Express (ONE), the mega carrier born out of the merger between three Japanese shippi...
Sri Lankan conglomerate Hemas Holdings is looking to expand regionally with its new logistics centre housing a container...
Ocean Network Express (ONE), a Japan-based shipping line, has begun calling at Sri Lanka's Colombo, port.
A Chinese state firm is holding back a part payment of 585 million US dollars for Hambantota Port over a unresolved issu...
ECONOMYNEXT – Delays in further expanding Colombo port with the addition of more container terminals is a cause f...
Containers handled at Sri Lanka's Colombo port grew 16.2 percent from a year earlier to 1.7 million twenty foot equivale...
State-run Sri Lanka Ports Authority said it had made 13.3 billion rupees of profits in 2017, up from 1.03 billion rupees...
ECONOMYNEXT – Ocean Network Express, a new global container carrier alliance of three Japanese liner companies, h...
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