The United States will lend more than $550m for a deep-sea container terminal in Sri Lanka, officials say, with the project seen as countering China’s rising influence in the Indian Ocean.

From 2015 to 2020, authorities in Sri Lanka and India seized nearly 65 metric tons of sea cucumbers worth more than $2.8 million and arrested 502 people in connection with the attempted trafficking.

By Asiri Fernando/The Sunday Morning Colombo, September 24: As an island nation, Sri Lanka's history and future is linked with the ocean t ...

To keep the Hambantota dream alive Sri Lanka needs help, and debt-for-equity swaps have been arranged that will see controlling interests in the country's only deep sea port and Mattala ...

Sri Lanka is Chair of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Working Group on Maritime Safety and Security till 2027, IORA Vice Chair for 2021-2023 and will take over as the IORA Chair this year.

The IMO confirmed separately that Sri Lanka has not yet made a formal proposal to reroute the sea lane. For the Sri Lankan government, currently mired in the worst economic crisis in the country ...

Dailymirror.lk– Sri Lanka 24 Hours Online ... a country can have continental shelf rights up to 350 nm or 100 nm from the 2,500 metre depth, ... Sri Lanka lobbies UN for territorial sea ...

MIRISSA, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan waters are considered a haven for the largest creatures ever to have lived, the blue whale, a rare place for a resident, year-round population to thrive. In 2021 ...