DFC loans Colombo CT US$553M
NewsThe Washington (DC)-based US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is lending US$553M to Colombo West International Terminal P...
Colombo East Phase II work under way
NewsSri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa officiated at a ceremony to mark the start of work on Phase ...
Adani for Colombo’s ECT?
NewsAlthough India-based Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) and its Sri Lankan agent were reportedly given ‘in-principle approv...
Colombo’s East Container Terminal out of the blocks
NewsThe Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) this month welcomed the first container vessel at its long-delayed East Container Terminal (ECT) when i...
Colombo tops 6M TEU
NewsThe Port of Colombo crossed the 6M TEU mark on 22 December, a 4.6% increase on container traffic in 2016....
SAGT goes live with Navis N4
NewsSouth Asia Gateway Terminal (SAGT) in the Port of Colombo, has successfully gone live with Navis’ N4 terminal system and N4 Billing....
Jaya Container Terminal volumes up
NewsVolumes at Jaya Container Terminal, owned and operated by Sri Lanka Ports Authority grew steadily in Q4 2017...
Port of Colombo’s hub plan
NewsSri Lanka’s Colombo looks set to emerge as the transhipment centre for South Asia, as the country’s government gets behind plans to make...
Work on Colombo box terminal to begin soon
NewsThree international bidders - China Harbour Engineering Corp, China State Engineering Corp and Britain's Boskalis International - have shown...
CMHI takes majority stake in Colombo South
NewsChina Merchants Holdings International (CMHI) has taken a 55% stake in Sri Lanka’s Colombo South Container Terminal (CSCT) development, be...
Cure for Colombo congestion
NewsSri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) will build a cargo village near the Port of Colombo to hold export containers in a bid to reduce congestion...
China Merchants set for Colombo project…
NewsA consortium-led by China Merchant Holdings International (CMHI) is poised to build the first of three container terminals planned for Sri L...
Sole bid for Colombo
NewsThe global economic downturn would appear to have dampened interest in the concession to build a new container terminal at the Sri Lankan po...
Colombo deadline extended
NewsSri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has extended the deadline for submitting proposals to build the first container terminal at the Port of Col...
Interest high in Colombo
NewsFourteen potential investors have shown interest in building and operating the first container terminal at Colombo’s South Harbour develop...