An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 on the Richter scale hit Sri Lanka's Colombo on Tuesday at 12.31 pm, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, NCS wrote ...

In 2023, the US announced a US$500 million plan to develop a deep-water shipping container terminal at the port of Colombo.

Sri Lanka has preferential access to GSP + trade concessions on 6000 tariff lines. Sri Lanka will soon have an electronic window that will link state agencies with international trade,” the minister ...

The location of Sri Lanka thus lies in the key shipping route between the Malacca Straits and Suez Canal, which link Asia and Europe. Currently, the main use of the port is to receive vehicles ...

Credit: Sri Lanka map image via Shutterstock.com Subscribe for ads-free reading Sri Lanka is in an enviable location. The busy East-West shipping route passes just six to ten nautical miles south ...

Colombo Port City was meant to jump start Sri Lanka’s economy and re-establish it in the global theater as a place that has more than just forest resources and beaches for tourists, and the ...

When author Nathan Borchelt, traveled to Sri Lanka for three weeks in October, 2005 to write “The Sweet Life,” about the Ceylon Tea Trails, for the April issue of Outside (now on stands) he ...