News / Reports of Colombo Port's demise are greatly exaggerated, say shippers

Shipping stakeholders in Sri Lanka have hit back at claims carriers are avoiding the port of Colombo over the country’s political and economic crisis.

According to Rohan Masakorala, CEO of Shippers’ Academy Colombo, the South Asian transhipment hub did suffer some operational disruption last month, but it was short lived.

“I think it’s all a bit of a cooked-up story,” he told The Loadstar.

“There were a couple of days where the [inter-terminal] truck drivers couldn’t get to the port to work, because ...