DFC loans Colombo CT US$553M

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) is to take delivery of cargo handling equipment worth more than US$282M in the next few months.

Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa officiated at a ceremony to mark the start of work on Phase II of the East Container Terminal (ECT) at Colombo this month

Inchcape Mackinnon Mackenzie Shipping (Pte) Ltd is a newly-formed Anglo-Sri Lankan joint venture of Inchcape Shipping Services and John Keells Holdings

Construction of phase 5 of Jaya Container Terminal, operated by Sri Lanka Ports Authority, has begun

Although India-based Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) and its Sri Lankan agent were reportedly given ‘in-principle approval’ by the Sri Lanka cabinet in early November to sign a deal with the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) to develop/operate the East Container Terminal (ECT), at the time of writing, it was uncertain whether a final agreement would be concluded.

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) this month welcomed the first container vessel at its long-delayed East Container Terminal (ECT) when it handled the MSC EMMA (13,092 Teu).