Lube Control
Nov 28, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard, a ship repair and building firm, found its competitiveness hurt by import restrictions on …
Shipping and Transport
Port Profit
Nov 25, 2013 (LBO) – Profits at Sri Lanka Ports Authority was up sharply in the first nine months of the year, helped by a weaker Japanese Yen and higher …
Vehicle Trend
Nov 04, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s new vehicles registrations slowed across the board in September 2013 from a month earlier, though two wheelers …
Militarization
October 30, 2013 (AFP) – An anti-corruption watchdog Wednesday criticised the appointment of Sri Lanka’s navy chief as head of the country’s …
Airport Express
Oct 28, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has opened a 25.8 kilometre toll-road to the main international airport which is expected to sharply cut travel time and …
Slow Gear
Oct 28, 2013 (LBO) – Profits and Diesel and Motor Engineering Plc, agents for Mercedes and Tata in Sri Lanka slipped 58 percent to 47,590 million rupees …
Port City
Oct 25, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state ports agency is expecting to sign a deal a 1.4 billion US dollar sea reclamation deal which will with a …
Efficiency Gains
Oct 15, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Aitken Spence group said efficiency at Fiji’s Suva and Lautoka ports were up 35 percent two months after it …
Labour Standard
Oct 03, 2013 (LBO) – The first of seven Sri Lankan flagged ships plying international waters recently received International Labour Organisation …
Port Island
Sept 30, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is planning to build an artificial island off Hambantota in the South of the island with the sand dredged to expand a …
Road Capacity
Sept 26, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has to double road capacity every 10 years to meet rising demand, the Asian Development Bank said after approving a fresh …
Rail Connection
COLOMBO, September 14, 2013 (AFP) – A train linking the political home of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels with the rest of the island rolled into …
Driving Experience
Sept 03, 2013 (LBO) – German automaker Porsche is expecting to boost sales in Sri Lanka which have been hurt due to tax hikes with its newly launched …
Century
Aug 25, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port has welcomed its 100th roll-on-roll-off car carrier this month when ‘Istra Ace’, a …
Ship Building
Aug 19, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard Plc, a unit of Onomichi of Japan said profits fell 73 percent to 114 million rupees in the June …
Spectator Port
Aug 14, 2013 (LBO) – Large crowds have surged to view a billion US dollar port expansion project in Sri Lanka after the state port agency opened its …
Vehicle Trend
Aug 14, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s car registration have surged forward to a 15-month high of 2,305, up 74.6 percentfrom a year earlier, mostly …
Trade Route
BEIJING, 2013 (AFP) – A 19,000-tonne cargo vessel is making the first journey by a Chinese merchant ship to Europe via the Northeast Passage, a shortened …
Port Repair
Aug 06, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Access Engineering Plc said it had taken a 30 percent stake in a port handling machinery maintenance firm set up …
Express Way
Aug 06, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa had requested China Merchants group, which has just commissioned a container terminal, …