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SLPA to take delivery of new equipment

News9 Feb 2024

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

News10 Nov 2023

The Washington (DC)-based US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is lending US$553M to Colombo West International Terminal P...

News2 Dec 2020

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

News2 Jan 2019

The Sri Lankan hub handled the record-breaking container on 31st December 2018, from MSC’s CPO HAMBURG...

News12 Nov 2018

In the first nine months of 2018, the Port of Colombo witnessed its highest ever growth in transhipment container traffic, with numbers up b...

News23 Jul 2018

The Port of Colombo has witnessed its highest ever year-on-year growth of 19.8% in transshipment container throughput in H1 2018, handling ...

News21 Jun 2018

China Merchants Port Holdings has now handed over nearly US$1 billion for a 70% stake in Hambantota Port, one of the most expensive links in...

News27 Dec 2017

The Port of Colombo crossed the 6M TEU mark on 22 December, a 4.6% increase on container traffic in 2016....

News30 Jan 2017

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

News1 Jan 2017

It looks as if the concession process for the Colombo Port East Container Terminal (CPECT) will be cancelled, with bids submitted by the sev...

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 Jun 2015

A crane tender is set to be issued by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) shortly. The SLPA has invested US$80M in the first 400m of a new ...

News1 Aug 2013

The new Colombo International Container Terminal (CICT) in Sri Lanka has opened with the in-house TOS developed by China Merchants Holdings ...

News19 Nov 2011

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

News1 Jul 2011

Sri Lanka is aiming to become an Asian shipping hub capable of competing with Singapore and Dubai by investing US$3.4B in the expanion of it...