Sri Lanka

A Silk Route for
Smooth Sailing

Sri Lanka’s geographical location has, traditionally, represented a significant point in the Indian Ocean region and has been a haven for seafarers. The island presents a legacy of shipping and maritime hub status, and continues to be a preferred trading route through the centuries. Located strategically along the ancient Silk Route connecting the East to the West, Sri Lanka still maintains its maritime domain. Equipped with its dynamic port facilities and destination comparative advantage offering, it remains poised to cater to global shipping lines. Geographically Sri Lanka is the mid-way point between two of the world’s largest and most significant maritime hubs: Dubai and Singapore.

Sri Lanka
At a Glance

Sri Lanka’s strategic location among the main marine and air navigation routes within the South Asian region makes the country a lucrative destination for entrepot and logistic development.

The country’s close proximity to emerging markets, and it’s already developed air and seaports in Colombo and Hambantota makes it an important logistics hub in the region providing entrepot and transhipment services to leading shipping lines and exporters.

During the last five years, the World Shipping Council has consecutively ranked Sri Lanka’s Colombo Port among Top 50 World Container Ports above other South Asia ports based on the volume of the containers handled.

Sri Lankan logistics services contribute 2.5% of gross domestic product, which represents around USD 2 billion. Logistics services include container trucking, warehousing, ports and shipping, but exclude domestic transport of passengers, fisheries and interregional domestic cargo transportation.

Statistics

Location

Latitude 5° 55. to 9° 50. north, Longitude 79° 42. to 81° 52., 650km north of the equator

Area

65,610 km2 (25,330 sq mi)

Capital

Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (legislative) Colombo (executive and judicial)

Currency

Sri Lankan Rupee (LKR)

Time zone

UTC+5:30 (Sri Lanka Standard TIme)

No. of Ports

International - 6

Domestic - 16

Why Sri Lanka

As the leading maritime hub of the South Asian region.

Sri Lanka offers a range of conditions that facilitate seamless cargo storage and transitions, in being a strategic location, its expansion and logistics infrastructure and its conducive regulatory climate.

- Regional and Global distribution centre operation
- Regional and global quality assurance centres
- Entrepot trade operations
- E-commerce fulfilment centres
- Controlled atmosphere cold storage facilities Canning and
  packing operations for food and beverage industry
- Assembly and manufacturing of automobiles and machinery in specified bonded areas
- Dry & wet dock repairs
- Crew changes
- Supplying and replacing victual
- Multi-Country Consolidation (MCC) and groupage services
- A range of value-added re-export services for a variety of industries
- Under the Commercial Hub Regulation No. 1818/ 30 issued in the year 2013, Sri Lanka offers a series of commercial hub operational services to facilitate the evolving requirements of global supply chains.

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