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’ ...

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

Transhipment Headlines

News / Time to reverse 'decade-long decline' in South African logistics

News / Hapag-Lloyd warns customers EU ETS surcharge will 'roughly double'

News / First shipper uses new land-air corridor ex-India for Bangladesh exports

News / Port of Colombo resumes operations after 20-hour labour strike

News / Hong Kong air cargo hit by massive reduction in trucking from mainland

COMPANY NOTICES

News / More time-saving Bangladesh-Europe direct shipping services on the cards

News / Port congestion cascades into intra-Asia services, disrupting container traffic

News / More misery for Bangladeshi fashion houses as prices fall below cost

News / Ambitious Sri Lanka wants to become a global maritime and logistics centre

News / Warning to shippers: more transhipment likely after IMO 2020

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News / Cabotage relief boosts transhipment in India, but boxes are empty, claim critics

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

Transhipment Headlines

News / Time to reverse 'decade-long decline' in South African logistics

News / Hapag-Lloyd warns customers EU ETS surcharge will 'roughly double'

News / First shipper uses new land-air corridor ex-India for Bangladesh exports

News / Port of Colombo resumes operations after 20-hour labour strike

News / Hong Kong air cargo hit by massive reduction in trucking from mainland

COMPANY NOTICES

News / More time-saving Bangladesh-Europe direct shipping services on the cards

News / Port congestion cascades into intra-Asia services, disrupting container traffic

News / More misery for Bangladeshi fashion houses as prices fall below cost

News / Ambitious Sri Lanka wants to become a global maritime and logistics centre

News / Warning to shippers: more transhipment likely after IMO 2020

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News / Cabotage relief boosts transhipment in India, but boxes are empty, claim critics

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