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PPP plan for Colombo’s East Container Terminal

News1 Feb 2016

Sri Lanka is to develop Colombo’s East Container Terminal, via a public-private partnership (PPP) that would leave the government with a m...

News1 Oct 2009

Launched in September 2008 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the International Road Transport Union (IRU)’s New Eurasian Land Transport Initiative ...

News1 Oct 2009

The Indian government has approved the terms of an overseas development assistance (ODA) loan from Japan to allow Indian Railways (IR) to st...

News1 Jun 2009

Bangladesh’s Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has awarded contracts worth S$12m (US$8.22m) to Singapore Technologies Electronics (STE) to s...

News1 Jun 2009

Toll Holdings has continued its latest Asia-focused expansion drive by signing a 30-year concession to operate Cambodia’s railways....

News1 May 2009

Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has extended the deadline for submitting proposals to build the first container terminal at the Port of Col...

News1 May 2009

Counterintuitively, the global economic crisis has revived several rail development projects in the Transcaucasus and Central Asia....

News1 Apr 2009

Iran has reached an agreement to build a cross-border rail link with Armenia to facilitate the flow of transit cargo. Tehran said it hopes t...

News1 Apr 2009

Fourteen potential investors have shown interest in building and operating the first container terminal at Colombo’s South Harbour develop...

News1 Feb 2009

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has called for fresh bids for the construction of a new container terminal at the Port of Colombo follo...

News1 Jul 2008

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is refusing to provide funding for six container scanners being acquired by the Port of Chittagong, after t...

News1 Apr 2008

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering and Construction has won the US$377M contract to build a seawall and carry out dredging works to expand ...

News1 Nov 2007

The government of Sri Lanka is evaluating five bids to build and operate a 2.4M TEU/year container terminal at Colombo’s South Harbour dev...

News1 Jan 2007

Preliminary work has started on the long-awaited South Harbour expansion at Sri Lanka’s Port of Colombo that will increase its container h...

News1 Sep 2006

Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide Sri Lanka with a US$225M loan to part-finance the construction of the longawaited Sou...