Shipping and Transport

Loco Rent

Apr.17 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Department of Railways is planning to rent locomotives from India, Transport Minister A H M Fowzie said Monday. We can …

Changing Timetables

Apr.07 (LBO) - Sri Lanka will go back to five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) from the traditional Sinhala and Tamil New Year of April 14, …

Terminal Appeal

Apr.06 (LBO) - Engineers of the Colombo Port are urging the president to speed up a project to modernise the port's computer system, which will improve …

Pakistan Tie

Apr.03 (LBO) - Sri Lanka has asked the Pakistan government to start a Colombo-Karachi ferry service and liberalise air services during President Mahinda …

Home Bound

Mar 20 (AFP) - More than 100 US troops who were stranded in Sri Lanka after their aircraft made an emergency landing last week left the island Monday aboard a …

Safe Passage

Mar. 13 (LBO) - Sri Lanka will push for an open skies agreement with India, on the sidelines of trade talks in May to liberalise service sectors of both …

Scrapping By

Mar10. (LBO) -- The government doubled a cess on nonferrous metal exports in a move to keep down raw material costs of small scale brass and copper based metal …

Slow Take-off

Mar. 05 (LBO) – Two of the three airlines that were given provisional approval to start international services out of Sri Lanka have so far submitted …

Joint Deal

Mar. 03 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Hemas Holdings said Friday it added local courier firm ACX International pte Ltd, to their growing portfolio of business. …

Setting Sail

Feb. 24 (LBO) – State-run shipping carrier is floating its own service to tap the feeder business in the Indian subcontinent and plans to tap commercial …

Road Runner

Feb. 16 (LBO) – Transport experts say more private vehicles are coming into Colombo despite a drop in the number of people traveling to the city. Fewer …

Just Cruising

Feb13 (LBO) - Luxury car importers DIMO Lanka says a hefty 214 percent tax on high engine capacity vehicle imports has not slowed down sales significantly. …

Now or Never

Feb 07 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) chief warned Tuesday that the island would suffer irreversible costs if the south port project does not …

Sailing Offshore

Feb. 06 (LBO)-Sri Lanka's only commercial ship building and repair firm Colombo Dockyards Limited (CDL) plans to invest over Rs. online pharmacy buy spiriva …

Anchors Away

The conditions of a US$ 150 million Asian Development Bank (ADB) loan to part fund Colombo’s long over due port expansion, will be finalized by early …

Driving Growth

Jan 25 (LBO) - Sri Lankan based IFS South Asia, offering supply chain solutions, clinched a million dollar deal with Pakistan’s automobile giant Millat …

Ground Zero

Jan. 19 (LBO) - SriLankan Airlines has pushed back plans to launch its floatplane ferry service to the North, following increased violence in Jaffna and …

Green Light

Jan. 19 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's ageing rail-network could soon get a new extension, with policymakers this week agreeing to set up a unit to study the feasibility …

Big Cheque

Jan. 16 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Monday picked up its largest ever cheque from the World Bank for US$ 160 million to develop education and roads, officials said. …

Paperless Flight

By the second quarter this year, SriLankan Airlines says it will roll out E-ticketing through its network of travel agents, expanding current sales of its …