Bangladesh: Colombo Port offers special berthing facilities to Bangladeshi vessels

DHAKA, 02 July 2022, (TON): Sri Lanka's state-owned Jaya Container Terminal at Colombo Port has offered priority berthing facilities to Bangladeshi feeder vessels.

According to a message “Chairman of Sri Lanka Ports Authority Prasantha Jayamanna has recently announced it at a discussion in Colombo.”

He briefed Bangladesh about the present facilities as well as ongoing and future expansion plan of Colombo Port which would increase their container handling capacity to 15 million TEUs once completed in 2025-26.

The message from the mission said “Bangladesh High Commission has been pursuing this priority berthing issue with SLPA for long.”

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