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Sri Lanka expects to complete East Container Terminal by July 2024

Work on West Terminal to begin soon

January 12, 2022 1 min read

Sri Lanka's China-backed Hambantota tank farm Lloyd's Register certified

Expects grown in 2022

January 9, 2022 1 min read

Sri Lanka Colombo port container volumes surge in November

Transshipment and domestic volumes up

December 30, 2021 1 min read

China firm to Salvage Express Pearl wreck off Sri Lanka

SSC have established a project team for the salvage operation and have already mobilized

December 8, 2021 1 min read
Sri Lanka port trade unions oppose increase in female gantry operators: Minister

Unions have protested the increase of female gantry crane operators

Sri Lanka looks for investment for ship building, repairing in Oluvil commercial harbour

The port has not been in operation for almost a decade due to sand deposits at the entrance

Sri Lanka's Hayleys offloads oil rig from Brazil in sheltered Trincomalee

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Hayleys Energy Services said it had safely offloaded an oil rig that had arrived in Trincomale...

January 10, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka gets first US$292mn from China for Hambantota Port

Sri Lanka has received 292.1 million US dollars from China Merchant Port Holdings Company Ltd, as the first instalment f...

December 26, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Colombo port handles 6mn TEUs by December 2017

Sri Lanka's Colombo Port hand handled 6.0 million twenty foot equivalent unit (TEUs) up to December 22, with the help of...

December 26, 2017 1 min read

New Sri Lanka shipping service with Yangon, Chennai

ECONOMYNEXT – A dedicated feeder shipping service connecting Sri Lanka’s Colombo port with Yangon in Myanm...

December 19, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka to call tenders for two pilot boats

State run Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA will call international tenders to buy two pilot boats, the sate information o...

December 17, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka Ports Authority to call bids for pilot boats

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka Ports Authority is to call for international bids to buy two pilot boats for Colombo port the pr...

December 15, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka readies shareholder deal with China on Hambantota port

Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers had approved for signing with China, a shareholder agreement on two joint venture compa...

December 7, 2017 1 min read

Shipping liberalization makes Sri Lanka more competitive: Maersk

ECONOMYNEXT – A visiting senior official from Danish-owned AP Moller-Maersk, one of the world's largest container...

December 5, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Walkers Shipyard to get US$4mn from ADB

Sri Lanka's Walkers Shipyard (Pvt) Ltd said it has inked a deal to get a 4 million US dollar loan from the Manial-based ...

December 4, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka gives concessions for China port operations, ESC to be charged

Sri Lanka has given a series of tax exemptions for two joint venture companies with China that will part own or manage c...

November 29, 2017 2 min read
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Sri Lanka President opposes shipping liberalisation: Minister

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Shipping Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe announced in parliament Tuesday that President Maithrip...

November 28, 2017 2 min read

Electric-powered cranes commissioned in Sri Lanka's CICT port terminal

ECONOMYNEXT – The Chinese-operated Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) in Sri Lanka’s Colombo...

November 23, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard trims losses in Sept quarter

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard said its net loss narrowed to Rs79 million in the September 201...

November 16, 2017 1 min read

CM Port raises first payment for Sri Lanka’s Hambantota Port

ECONOMYNEXT – China Merchants Port Holdings (CM Port) has agreed to increase its first instalment payment for lea...

November 15, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka proposes shipping liberalization to become logistics hub

Sri Lanka has proposed the removal of ban on foreign ownership of shipping and freight forwarding firms which was preven...

November 10, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka to allow foreign ownership in shipping agencies, logistics firms

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government will remove restrictions on foreign ownership of ship agency and freight ...

November 9, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Colombo port to handle 6mn containers this year

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Colombo port expects to handle six million containers this year, most of which w...

November 8, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Colombo moves to 25 among container ports

Sri Lanka's Colombo Port has moved up two places to become the 25th busiest container port, next to Vietnam's Ho Chi Min...

November 2, 2017 1 min read

Singapore's Keppel to exit Sri Lanka's JKH logistics unit

Keppel Telecommunications and Transportation Ltd (KT&T), a Singapore listed company said it will sell a 25 percent stake...

November 1, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Colombo port container volumes up 6.3-pct up to August

Container volumes handled at Sri Lanka's Colombo port rose 6.3 percent in the eight months to August 2017, with tranship...

October 30, 2017 1 min read