Cutting Flab
Aug 31, 2010 (LBO) – The Sri Lanka Ports Authority plans to shed staff with a voluntary retirement scheme and change worker attitudes to ensure a better …
Shipping and Transport
Terminal Award
Aug 30, 2010 (LBO) – A concession to build and operate a 450 million US dollar container terminal in an expanded port in Colombo port has been awarded to …
Northern Links
Aug 27, 2010 (LBO) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will give Sri Lanka a loan of 154.4 million US dollars to modernise roads in the north which was …
Lifting Boost
Aug 24, 2010 (LBO) – The Sri Lanka Ports Authority is to borrow 62.5 million US dollars from the state-owned Bank of Ceylon to fund the acquisition of …
Gainful Moves
Aug 23, 2010 (LBO) – A planned expressway between Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo and Kandy in the central hills will significantly reduce transport …
Maritime Links
Aug 21, 2010 (LBO) – India and Sri Lanka have prepared the draft of an agreement to resume ferry services across the narrow strip of water separating the …
Laying Tracks
Aug 18, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has given another deal to an Indian company to rebuild part of the northern rail track destroyed by war using a soft loan …
European Link
Aug 17, 2010 (LBO) – Logistics firm DHL has launched a direct Less-than-Container Load (LCL) service from Colombo and Singapore to Koper, Slovenia, …
Keel Laying
Aug 17, 2010 (LBO) – Colombo Dockyard has laid the keel for construction of the second vessel of a series of two 130 Ton Bollard Pull Anchor Handling Tug …
Foreign Policy
HAMBANTOTA, August 15, 2010 (AFP) – A China-funded port in Sri Lanka will be a symbol of Colombo’s non-partisan foreign policy, the president said …
Bus Business
Aug 12, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s People’s Leasing Company has ordered 1,000 buses from India’s Ashok Leyland as post-war growth …
Bus Business
Aug 12, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s People’s Leasing Company has ordered 1,000 buses from India’s Ashok Leyland as post-war growth …
Commercial Move
HAMBANTOTA, August 12, 2010 (AFP) – Sri Lanka is preparing to open the first phase of a China-funded, 1.5-billion-dollar port project that has fuelled …
Travel Tale
Aug 11, 2010 (LBO) – Lanka Ashok Leyland, an Indo-Lanka joint venture importing and assembling buses has reported a sharp increase in profit and sales as …
Box Trade
Aug 10, 2010 (LBO) – Container volumes at a Colombo port private terminal run by an associate firm of John Keells Holdings rose in July as harbour delays …
City Links
Aug 06, 2010 (LBO) – The Sri Lankan government said it has got Asian Development Bank funding to start work on an expressway between Colombo and Kandy in …
Risky Voyage
RIYADH, August 2, 2010 (AFP) – A Saudi insurance company is to pay Somali pirates a 20-million-dollar ransom to free a hijacked ship and its 14-member …
Logistical Skills
July 28, 2010 (LBO) – Several batches of transport professionals will graduate from Sri Lankan universities and academies this year, easing a skills …
Grievances
July 27, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has not paid some owners of land acquired by the state for infrastructure for 25-years, and a total of 8. buy wellbutrin …
Road Cash
July 27, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has asked for 500 million US dollars from the Asian Development Bank to build a new highway from the island’s …