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X-Press Pearl - Sri Lanka's shipping agents group explains background on dangerous cargo

Most ships routinely carry hazardous cargo subject to rules

June 29, 2021 8 min read

Boxship MSC Messina hit by engine room fire after leaving Sri Lanka

Another vessel within sight

June 25, 2021 1 min read

Nihal Keppetipola takes over as Chairman of Sri Lanka Ports Authority

He had been managing director of the agency and Harbhour Master in Colombo

June 23, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka links some turtle deaths to X-Press Pearl fire, whale death probed

Some fish coming ashore have also had plastic nurdles (polypropylene granules) that had spilt from the ship.

June 19, 2021 5 min read
Xi meets Sri Lanka PM as China eyes main Colombo airport development 

Prime Minister Gunawardena is on a six-day official visit to China

EOIs to be called to select party to promote Sri lanka flagged ships

To promote the island as a location for registering merchant vessels.

Sri Lanka govt snubs shipping industry on policy initiative

Efforts by Sri Lanka’s shipping professionals to initiate discussions with the government on a policy for its por...

March 21, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka shipping industry mystified over unopened Hambantota port proposals

ECONOMYNEXT – Proposals to make investments at Hambantota port in southern Sri Lanka, which critics have dubbed a...

March 20, 2017 2 min read

Somali pirates hijack oil tanker with eight Sri Lanka crew

Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker with eight Sri Lankan crew onboard, a Somali official said on Tuesday. This is the f...

March 14, 2017 2 min read

Aitken Spence and France's DPG Group in courier services to Sri Lanka and Maldives

Aitken Spence said it will represent France's DPD group to provide international courier services in Sri Lanka and the M...

March 14, 2017 1 min read

JBIC, Mitsubishi Bank to finance Sri Lanka coastguard vessel order

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Colombo Dockyard Plc has proposed financing from JBIC, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ for a $180...

March 13, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Colombo port volume up 10.6-pct helped by Chinese terminal

Sri Lanka's Colombo Port handled 5.734 million containers in 2016, up 10.6 percent from a year earlier, helped by a deep...

March 11, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka Ports Authority aims at 51-pct stake in new terminal amid delays

State-run Sri Lanka Ports Authority would like to retain a 51 percent in a terminal for which a private investor is bein...

March 10, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka Port Authority makes Rs11bn in profits in 2016

Sri Lanka Ports Authority had made profits of 11 billion rupees (73 million US dollars) in the year to December 2016, on...

March 9, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Hambantota port deal with China to be revamped: Minister

Sri Lanka plan to bring a Chinese state firm as an investor to Hambantota Port to will be revamped to bring it in line w...

March 9, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka port employs women gantry operators in regional first

State-run Sri Lanka Ports Authority said it has started employing lady gantry crane operators in a first for a South Asi...

March 9, 2017 1 min read
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Chinese Communist team inspects Sri Lanka port, airport

ECONOMYNEXT – A Communist Party team from China’s business capital has inspected an airport and port built...

March 7, 2017 2 min read

Colombo Dockyard to get US$180mn Sri Lanka patrol vessel deal

Sri Lanka's cabinet of minister had given nod for a 180 million US dollar order for coast guard vessels from Colombo Doc...

March 1, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka completes Megapolis water transport study, EOIs soon

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government has completed a pre-feasibility study on inland water transport in the pl...

February 28, 2017 2 min read

Norwegian firms keen on investing in Sri Lanka ports: envoy

ECONOMYNEXT – Norwegian companies are interested in investing in Sri Lanka’s shipping and ports sector, th...

February 21, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka to develop Galle Yacht marina by 'Swiss challenge'

Sri Lanka will use the 'Swiss Challenge' method to identify a developer for a yacht marina in the Southern port of Galle...

February 11, 2017 1 min read

Petroleum carrier MT Doradus to be auctioned in Sri Lanka

Motor Tanker Doradus, a petroleum product carrier will be auctioned by an order of Sri Lanka's High Courts on February 1...

January 29, 2017 1 min read

China container terminal drives Sri Lanka volumes, despite India trade drop

Sri Lanka's Colombo Port has increased throughput over the past two years, with the commissioning of a deep draft termin...

January 28, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka Ports Authority to operate East Terminal first phase: Minister

Sri Lanka Ports Authority will procure cranes and operate part of a terminal which has since been offered to private inv...

January 24, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka to regularize small vessels, pleasure craft with local rules

Sri Lanka will issue standardised regulations for small commercial vessels, including pleasure crafts, according to a pr...

January 22, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka clamps down on tuk-tuks as death toll mounts

Sri Lanka on Friday tightened the rules governing the around one million tuk-tuks -- rickety three-wheel taxis -- on its...

January 13, 2017 1 min read