JCT Yard
Sri Lanka Ports
Authority (SLPA) has
successfully been
able to record its
highest ever monthly
throughput in August
2008 exceeding its
previous highest
monthly throughputs
recorded in June and
July this year.
Accordingly, SLPA
has handled its
highest ever monthly
through put of
185,099 Twenty-foot
Equivalent Units (TEUs)
last August against
its previous highest
monthly throughput
of 173,583 TEUs
recorded in last
July. It is a
positive change of
11,516 TEUs.
Parallel to these
standards, the port
of Colombo has also
been able to exceed
its previous highest
ever monthly
throughput of
326,124 TEUs
recorded in July
2008, up to 340,240
TEUs last August
marking the latest
highest ever monthly
throughput record.
SLPA has
successfully reached
continuous
developmental
targets in economic
development of the
country through a
number of human
resource, welfare
and technical
programmes launched
by the management
under the initiative
of the new Acting
Chairman Priyath
Bandu Wickrama and
under direct
supervision and
correct guidance by
Port, Aviation,
Irrigation and Water
Management Minister
Chamal Rajapaksa.
