Parakrama Dissanayake

Sri Lanka Ports Authority in collaboration with the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Southern Development launched its exclusive and dedicated news website news.slpa.lk today, 21st February 2019.

To understand the importance of a national policy for the alignment of maritime and logistics sectors to reap the benefits towards the development of Sri Lanka, the final draft of the National Policy for Maritime and Logistics Sectors presented to the Honourable Minister of Ports & Shipping and Southern Development Sagala Ratnayaka in an event held at the Ministry, on 31 January 2019.

A high profile delegation of the United States headed by Deputy Assistant Secretary at the United States Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs David Ranz […]

With the initiative of Hon .Minister of Ports and Shipping Mahinda Samarasinghe and the participation of the Chairman of Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) – Dr.Parakrama […]

The Minister of Defence of the Government of Japan Itsunori Onodera recently paid a historic visit to the Port of Colombo on 21 August 2018. This […]

Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) as a leading public sector institution has achieved a revenue of Rs.45.6 billion in 2017. This is a significant increase compared […]

The Port of Colombo that had been ranked as the 18th Best Connectivity Port by the Drewry Port Connectivity Index is up by five places and […]

A special meeting to reach a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the terminals of the Port of Colombo was held at the Ministry of Ports and […]

Transshipment operations at the Port of Colombo shows a tremendous increase between the months of January 2017 and January 2018. Accordingly against 362,451 transshipment TEU operations […]

The Jaya Container Terminal (JCT) owned and operated by  Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), has expressed steady growth of operating volumes since October 2017. Accordingly, container […]