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Sri Lanka Ports Authority profits Rs4.9bn up to April 2021

SLPA revenues had grown 23 percent to 17,024 million rupees

August 2, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka's ExpoLanka Holdings profits surge in June 2021

"This was driven by a surge in consumer demand in the US retail markets"

July 30, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Adani backed container terminal finalizing design, structuring: John Keells

Work is progressing well towards meeting the conditions stipulated in the LOI

July 29, 2021 1 min read

China firm proposes US$200mn cargo services centre in Colombo Port

Panel to evaluate the proposal

July 27, 2021 1 min read
KKS Port acquires Sri Lanka Cement Corp land

Kankasanthurai Port has acquired 23 acres and 12 perches of land belonging to Cement Corporation at 52 million rupees

Sri Lanka container volumes surge 30-pct in Feb amid Red Sea troubles

Up to February 2024, transshipment volumes were up 27.2 percent

SriLankan Airlines loses Rs9.5bn in four months

Sri Lanka's state-run SriLankan Airlines has lost 9.52 billion rupees in the first four months of 2017, up 55 percent fr...

July 8, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s CICT voted best container terminal

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) has been voted the Best Contain...

July 5, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka port deal will ease pressure on rupee: shipping minister

ECONOMYNEXT – A deal to lease Sri Lanka’s southern Hambantota harbour to a Chinese firm will have economy-...

July 3, 2017 2 min read

Hambantota deal acceptable to both parties ready: Sri Lanka port minister

ECONOMYNEXT – An agreement with China Merchants Port Holdings to run Sri Lanka’s southern Hambantota port ...

July 1, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka to invite bids for ‘Megapolis’ canal ferries

ECONOMYNEXT – Investors interested in providing ferry services along waterways in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo ...

June 16, 2017 1 min read

Dart Global gets land in Sri Lanka logistics zone

Dart Global Logistics has won a 30-year lease on a two-acre block of land in Muthurajawela, a marshland north of Colombo...

June 15, 2017 1 min read

Parakrama Dissanayake made Sri Lanka Ports Authority boss

Parakrama Dissanayake, a veteran shipping professional has been appointed Chairman of Sri Lanka Ports Authority by the n...

June 3, 2017 1 min read

Only a professional to head Sri Lanka Ports Authority, new minister says

ECONOMYNEXT – The new Minister of Ports and Shipping Mahinda Samarasinghe has said only a professional will be ap...

May 24, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Colombo Dockyard returns to profit

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard returned to profit in the March 2017 quarter, with earnings of ...

May 17, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Colombo container terminal tender winner by end May

Sri Lanka has promised India that the winner of a competitive tender to build a container terminal in Colombo port will ...

May 1, 2017 1 min read
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Sri Lanka box volume up 2.4-pct in Feb 2017

Container volumes handled in Sri Lanka's Colombo port rose 2.4 percent from a year earlier to 449,977 twenty foot equiva...

April 24, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka ship fuel supplier doubled profit in 2016

ECONOMYNEXT – Profits at JCT Oil Bank, a fully owned subsidiary of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), more tha...

April 20, 2017 1 min read

Warehouse management system for Sri Lanka Ports Authority

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) is considering setting up a warehouse management system to bet...

April 19, 2017 1 min read

Labour dispute ends at Sri Lankan port terminal

ECONOMYNEXT – South Asia Gateway Terminals (SAGT), a private container terminal in Sri Lanka’s Port of Co...

April 18, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Colombo port box volume up 5.6-pct in Jan

Throughput at Sri Lanka's Colombo port rose 5.6 percent to 484,866 twenty foot equivalent units (TEUs) in January 2017 f...

April 11, 2017 1 min read

Ceylon Chamber, Hayleys in partnership to build Sri Lanka logistics workforce

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s main business chamber, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, has struck a partnership ...

April 5, 2017 2 min read

Tugs, navy boats fight MSC container ship fire off Sri Lanka

ECONMYNEXT - Sri Lanka Ports Authority tugs and navy fast attacks craft are trying to put out a fire on a Mediterranean ...

April 5, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka dockyard eyes modification business from new regulation

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s loss-making Colombo Dockyard is pursuing new business opportunities in ship repa...

March 27, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka in final stretch to ink Hambantota port deal with China

Sri Lanka is close to inking a revised deal with China's CM Port Holdings to sell an 80 percent stake in Hambantota port...

March 23, 2017 4 min read

Sri Lanka says China agrees to cut Hambantota port stake to 60-pct in a decade

Sri Lanka has reached an agreement to sell 80 percent of Hambantota port to China though a joint venture, an option to r...

March 22, 2017 2 min read