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DFC loans Colombo CT US$553M

News10 Nov 2023

The 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

News1 Jan 2022

Sri 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?

News1 Nov 2020

Although 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

News1 Oct 2020

The 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

News27 Dec 2017

The 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

News3 Jul 2017

South 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

News30 Jan 2017

Volumes at Jaya Container Terminal, owned and operated by Sri Lanka Ports Authority grew steadily in Q4 2017...

Port of Colombo’s hub plan

News1 Oct 2016

Sri 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

News19 Nov 2011

Three international bidders - China Harbour Engineering Corp, China State Engineering Corp and Britain's Boskalis International - have shown...

CMHI takes majority stake in Colombo South

News31 Aug 2011

China Merchants Holdings International (CMHI) has taken a 55% stake in Sri Lanka’s Colombo South Container Terminal (CSCT) development, be...

Cure for Colombo congestion

News1 Mar 2011

Sri 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…

News1 Mar 2010

A 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

News1 Jul 2009

The 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

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...

Interest high in Colombo

News1 Apr 2009

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

Colombo in demand

News1 Mar 2009

A fresh call for bids to build a new container terminal at Colombo has drawn the interest of some of the world’s top port operators and sh...