Economy and Trade

South and Southeast Asia’s largest tyre manufacturing factory – the Ferentino Tyre Corporation factory – has been declared open by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at Horana today (January 14). It spans across 60 acres at Wagawatta Export Processing Zone in Horana.… Read More »South and Southeast Asia’s largest tyre manufacturing factory declared open

The Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB) last week successfully completed its 30 th capacity-development webinar session to the exporter community and SMEs. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic situation of the country, the EDB could not carry out its… Read More »EDB SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES CAPACITY-DEVELOPMENT WEBINAR SERIES FOR EXPORTERS AND SMES IN 2020

Suresh de Mel, a well-known entrepreneur, assumed duties as the new Chairman of the Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB) on December 14. He succeeds the outgoing EDB Chairman Prabhash Subasinghe who ended his one-year tenure early this month. Speaking… Read More »NEWLY APPOINTED EDB CHAIRMAN SURESH DE MEL ASSUMES DUTIES

The SriLankan Airlines Ltd. is inviting proposals for the supply of READY TO SERVE FRUIT JUICES for on-board services. The bidding forms can be obtained directly through the following link: https://www.srilankan.com/en_uk/corporate/tender-notices The closing date and time for the bid will be… Read More »INVITATION FOR SUBMISSION OF BIDS FOR THE SUPPLY OF READY TO SERVE FRUIT JUICES FOR ON-BOARD SERVICES – SRILANKAN AIRLINES REFERENCE NO: 202030909

The SriLankan Airlines Ltd. has invited proposals for competitive bids for the following. Initially, the closing date was 13th October and has now been extended until 27th October 2020. Bid Invitation Reference No. Bid Closing Date Provisioning of a new… Read More »PROCUREMENT NOTICE OF SRILANKAN AIRLINES REFERENCE NO.: CPIT/ICB 02/2020 & CPIT/ICB 04/2020

As part of the Government’s sustained efforts at strengthening neighbourly relations, the Foreign Ministry facilitated on Friday (9/10) a high-level Chinese delegation composed of a key Political Bureau Member of the Communist Party and Diplomat Yang Jiechi along with the… Read More »Sri Lanka and China discuss economic revival and COVID-19 assistance

Advertising campaign to attract foreign investors Local businessmen should aim global market Maximum justice for depositors of bankrupt finance companies Steps to promote share market President Gotabaya Rajapaksa advised the officials to divert both institutional and independent innovations to the… Read More »Look for investors to promote innovations-President instructs officials