News: cargo

08/31/2010 | Reuters
Aug 31 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has signed a $450 million deal with China Merchants Holdings (0144.HK) and local conglomerate Aitken Spence SPEN.CM to boost the Colombo port's cargo-handling capacity, a official said on Tuesday.
07/16/2010 | AFP
COLOMBO — London-based shipping underwriters have formally lifted a war-risk classification from Sri Lanka's ports a year after the island ended its decades-long ethnic war, the foreign ministry said Friday.