Category: Shipping and Transport
Hambantota International Port surpasses half a million mark of RORO cargo
Hambantota International Port reached the milestone of handling 500,000 RORO cargo units in 2022 this November, with the discharging of 4302 units from Hyundai Glovis’ Hae Shin to the yard for transshipment. This year, 223 RORO vessels called at the port with cargo from India, South Korea, Japan and the Middle East for transshipment mainly […]
Sinopec to Import and Market Sri Lanka Products at 27,000 Outlets
Sinopec, the giant oil company with over 27,000 service stations in China, entered into an agreement with the Beijing Sri Road Connection Trade Company Limited during the Shanghai CIIE, to import and market Sri Lanka Food and Beverage products at their convenience stores. The contract is worth over USD 0.8 million. The 5th China International Import […]
Hapag Lloyd Lanka & Aitken Spence Travels boost tourism through luxury cruise Mein Schiff 5
Boosting the revival of the tourism industry in Sri Lanka, Hapag Lloyd Lanka ushers in super luxury cruise ‘Mein Schiff 5’ on the 29th of November at the Port of Colombo and the cruise will be calling the Port of Hambantota on the 30th of November 2022. More than 2,000 passengers (mostly European) and 900 […]
Construction of Colombo Port’s West Container Terminal kicks off
Construction of the Colombo Port’s Western Container Terminal (WCT) ceremonially commenced on Wednesday as a public-private partnership. Adani Ports partners John Keells Holdings PLC and Sri Lankan Port Authority (SLPA) to develop the WCT of Colombo Port on a Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis for a period of 35 years. The BOT agreement worth […]
CICT named best container terminal of its capacity in Asia for 6th successive year
Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) has been crowned the Best Container Terminal in Asia in the Under 4 million TEUs category for the sixth consecutive year, in just seven full years since it commenced fulloperations in mid-2014. The announcement of CICT’s prestigious win on a global platform was made at the 2022 Asian Freight, Logistics […]
Groundbreaking ceremony for INSEE Warehouse at Hambantota Port Industrial Park
INSEE Cement, Sri Lanka’s leading cement manufacturer, began construction of their mega capacity warehouse within the industrial park in Hambantota International Port (HIP) last week. The US$ 3 million investment by INSEE will be the largest warehousing facility inside a port in Sri Lanka for raw materials used in the production of cement. The warehouse […]
U.S. partners with David Pieris Motor Company to boost electric mobility in Sri Lanka
The U.S. government, through its development agency, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is committed to accelerating clean energy to drive social and economic sustainable growth in Sri Lanka. On August 16, Sri Lanka’s Minister of Power and Energy, Kanchana Wijesekera and U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung attended a signing ceremony for a Memorandum […]
Colombo Port City Economic Commission 2nd Biannual Progress Report
This report covers the activities of the Colombo Port City project from January to June 2022, shared by the Colombo Port City Economic Commission (CPCEC/Commission). Development Control Regulations (DCR) for the entire project were gazetted in April 2022 and an awareness program on them was conducted by the Commission for Government officials in June 2022. […]
Dutch Lanka Trailers exported new trailers to Australia from HIP
Locally manufactured trailers were exported to Australia from Hambantota International Port (HIP) on the RORO vessel ‘Atlas Leader’ which called at the southern port last week. The manufacturer, Dutch Lanka Trailers, has moved towards using this form of shipping of their trailers which is proving to be more cost effective than containerisation. This is the […]
DIMO together with Kalmar uplifts Sri Lanka’s port and inland container terminal operations
DIMO, a leading diversified conglomerate in Sri Lanka, and Kalmar, a global industry forerunner in port and inland container terminal automation and in energy-efficient container handling solutions, are geared to enhance and uplift local container terminal operations to the next level. This partnership reflects DIMO’s commitment to continuously fuelling the dreams and aspirations of the […]
Port City Colombo to represent Sri Lanka at World Cities Summit 2022
CHEC Port City Colombo is representing Sri Lanka at the World Cities Summit 2022 to be held at the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore from the 31st of July to the 3rd of August 2022. This biennial global event unites city leaders and associates from across 90 countries under this year’s theme, “Liveable and Sustainable Cities: […]
Business as usual at Hambantota Port despite current fuel crisis in Sri Lanka
Operations at the Hambantota International Port (HIP) from port services, marine services, energy hub, Port Industrial Park and Integrated logistics are running uninterrupted, despite the current fuel crisis in the country. As an essential service, HIP has ensured continuous fuel supply to enable the port to function 24/7 with no disruptions in shipping, logistics operations […]