With 100% attendance of operations and all other supportive staff during Sinhala and Tamil New Year season, and especially on 13th and 14th April 2018, the Jaya Container Terminal (JCT) and the Unity Container Terminal (UCT) of Sri Lanka Ports Authority were competitive and successful in keeping all its berths fully occupied. On 13th April 2018, the JCT and the UCT together handled 7459TEUs whilst the two terminals recorded handling of 6259 TEUs on 14th April 2018. With the deployment of 20 STS cranes and 18 at the JCT &UCT SLPA has operated 05 mother vessels and 08 feeder vessels during the two days.
The JCT itself handled 2,010,702TEUS out of the total volume of 6,209,068TEUs at the Port of Colombo in 2017. Compared to the 1st quarter, 2017, JCT has recorded a growth of 15.3% during the 1st quarter, 2018.
The Drewry Port Connectivity Index at its most recent release had ranked the Port of Colombo as the 13th best Connectivity Port in the world for the 4th quarter 2017, up by 05 places from its previous positioning of ranks. According to the rankings the Port of Colombo is also the top best connectivity port in South Asia.
Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the terminals of the Port of Colombo to operate collectively to promote the Port of Colombo.
Under the leadership of Hon.Minister of Ports and shipping Mahinda Samarasinghe, and instructions by the Chairman of Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) Dr.ParakramaDissanayake the positive increase at SLPA controlled terminals and especially the Jaya Container Terminal (JCT) is reasoned towards direct and straight forward decisions reached by the Management, that has also won employee recognition and credibility for such implementations. The Jaya Container Terminal (JCT) owned and operated by Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), has expressed steady growth of operating volumes since October 2017.
The recognition of credibility towards the management has encouraged the employees of SLPA to dedicatedly contribute towards efficient service along with collaborative support by all parties and stake holders engaged in the port operations to keep SLPA’s productivity at a steadily and sustainably increasing rate. Creating history, the Port of Colombo for the first time has recorded 6.2 million container operations in December last year.
