Port of Trincomalee

September 22, 2022

Sri Lanka: Trinco Port to Export Ilmenite after 30 years

For the first time after 30 years, Sri Lanka will start exporting ilmenite from Trincomalee port. This ilmenite export to China will start today. Sri Lankan Ports Authority has announced that a

Geopolitics/Sri Lanka

A Postscript to a Much-Forgotten Easter Sunday: The Japanese Raid on Ceylon

Easter Sunday recalls an adversity that only a few still living can remember, when the Second World War came to the doorstep of Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka. Eighty-four years have passed since that fateful April of 1942, when the Imperial

April 9, 2026

A Postscript to a Much-Forgotten Easter Sunday: The Japanese Raid on Ceylon

April 9, 2026

Geopolitics/Sri Lanka

Easter Sunday recalls an adversity that only a few still living can remember, when the Second World War came to the doorstep of Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka. Eighty-four years have passed since

Sri Lanka: Trinco Port to Export Ilmenite after 30 years

September 22, 2022

For the first time after 30 years, Sri Lanka will start exporting ilmenite from Trincomalee port. This ilmenite export to China will start today. Sri Lankan Ports Authority has announced that a

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