News / Port of Colombo reaping 'a bumper harvest' from the Red Sea crisis

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Sri Lanka’s Colombo port seems to have had a “bumper volume harvest” from the Red Sea crisis, after vessel operators frantically adjusted port calls to minimise schedule disruptions from the longer transits around southern Africa.

Colombo is a busy intermediate point for container transhipment in South Asia, predominantly for Indian cargo.

“Colombo has been a great beneficiary of the transhipment flow realignment in West Asia,” a Colombo-based port veteran told The Loadstar.

And the gains are clearly reflected in new throughput data. Combined ...