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New cranes land at Jaya Terminal

News1 May 2011

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) is installing three new ship-to-shore cranes and six RTGs manufactured by Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Indust...

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...

News1 Mar 2010

The first phase of Sri Lanka’s US$550M Hambantota port will become operational in November 2010, five months ahead of schedule, said Sri L...

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...

News1 Sep 2009

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) fears a possible delay in completing the first container terminal at Colombo’s South Harbour developm...

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...

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 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...

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 Sep 2008

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) hopes to call fresh bids in October to build a US$400M container terminal - the first of four planned f...

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 Mar 2008

Sri Lanka is to invite fresh bids to build a container terminal at the Port of Colombo’s South Harbour development after President Mahinda...

News1 Feb 2008

Going against the recommendations of two government committees, Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) seems determined to award the US$400M Colom...

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 Jun 2007

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has started building a multi-purpose port at Hambantota on the country’s south west coast with Chines...