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When new technologies and digital solutions are introduced, the risk increases that cyberattacks can take place onboard ships and in ports. Maritime cybersecurity is more important […]

Driving the digitalization of shipping is more important than ever. Increased data collection, processing and interconnectivity capabilities, enable automated systems to be controlled remotely or through […]

Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) Chairman Gen. Daya Ratnayake last week said steps were underway to make Colombo a smart port. The way forward as well […]

General Daya Ratnayake, Chairman of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), has recently appointed two experienced officers to fill the vacant posts of Additional Managing Directors. […]

Officials of the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health randomly collected 225 samples from employees of the Sri Lanka Ports of Authority and the Colombo […]

The bereavement of Mr A.C. M. K. Rahman, editor of the Tamil edition of our news website, due to a sudden illness is an event that […]

SLPA Special Announcement [ UPDATED] Due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the management of Sri Lanka Ports Authority has been instructed its employees living in police jurisdictions of […]

China is leading the recovery in demand for containerised goods but global throughput remains vulnerable to a second wave of COVID-19, according to Drewry Shipping Consultants’ (Drewry) […]

UN’s International Maritime Organization says it suffered a ‘sophisticated’ cyber-attack against IT systems. The global shipping industry sustained a second cyber attack within a week that’s […]

by Gary C. Kessler and Steven D. Shepard [The excerpts below are from the book Maritime Cybersecurity: A Guide for Leaders and Managers, published in early September.] […]