With about 5000 containers at all terminals at the Colombo Port there are about 400 loaded onto lorries queued up for clearing, and there is a growing congestion at the port due to the increased ...

COLOMBO, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Port of Colombo recorded its highest container throughput on record in 2025, handling 8.29 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), according to Sri Lanka Ports ...

The proposed site for a $553-million project to build a new, deep-water shipping container terminal in the Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Nov.8, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena The U ...

Ocean Network Express (ONE) has announced its Transpacific service starting from February 2025 which will deploy 16 core weekly services.“The emphasis will be on quality end-to-end direct services ...

The Port of Colombo witnessed a strong resurgence in transshipment volumes for the second consecutive month in October, signalling a significant easing of congestion that had previously caused ...

The Colombo Port is always in the news for the wrong reasons. More than 300 container trucks loaded with cargo are waiting within its premises due to a clearance delay, according to a report we ...

The Port of Colombo has expectations of sustaining its position in the region despite the possibility of a looming threat of losing business to the recently established Port of Vizhinjam in India. In ...

Sri Lanka’s port container volume has reached 1.54 million TEUs, marking a 16% year-on-year increase from the 1.32 million TEUs recorded during the same period in 2023, Port News Russia reported on ...

Colombo, Oct. 9 (Daily Mirror) - The Port of Colombo has reported a record net profit of Rs. 32.2 billion for the first eight months of 2025 — a 71% increase from Rs. 18.9 billion recorded during the ...

The story goes that in 2011 Sri Lanka’s then-president Mahinda Rajapaksa looked out from the land reclamation site of Colombo's emerging South Container Terminal and had an epiphany: why not just keep ...

21:31, Tue, Oct 1, 2024 Updated: 21:38, Tue, Oct 1, 2024 An incredible new seaside city worth £11 billion is being built right next to a sprawling metropolis and will be a getaway to South Asia. Port ...