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CICT wins CASA softball cricket championship 2023

Published in Cargo
Friday, 17 February 2023 03:52
Businesscafe - Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) won the 2023 six-a-side softball cricket tournament organised by the Ceylon Association of Shipping Agents (CASA) beating Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) in the final on Sunday 12th February. ...
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CICT in milestone initiative with CILT to enhance training in logistics & transport

Published in Cargo
Friday, 09 December 2022 05:11
  Businesscafe - Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) has announced a milestone collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) to provide job-based training opportunities for young people aspiring to careers in logistics and transport. ...
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CICT pledges US$ 25,000 for sight-saving surgeries in Sri Lanka

Published in Cargo
Monday, 21 November 2022 07:00
  Businesscafe - Another group of Sri Lankans with correctable eye diseases and disorders will soon begin surgery to restore clearer vision, thanks to the latest phase of a community initiative of Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) in partnership with the Nawaloka Hospital. ...
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CICT engineer invents potentially life-saving quick-release hook for use in mooring ships

Published in Cargo
Friday, 21 October 2022 07:21
Businesscafe - Sri Lankan engineering ingenuity at Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) has given the maritime world a potentially life-saving innovation that eliminates the risks run while mooring large ships. ...
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CICT & HIPG gift essential foods to 362 families of ‘Hope Village’

Published in Living
Thursday, 29 September 2022 14:55
Businesscafe - Families in a village in Sri Lanka’s deep South witnessed corporate generosity and empathy when Colombo International Container Terminals Limited (CICT) and Hambantota International Port Group (HIPG) joined hands recently to donate dry rations to residents of Kandagasmankada in the Lunugamwehera Division of the Hambantota District....
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CMF and CICT fund Sri Lanka’s Wheelchair Tennis Programme with another US$ 35,000

Published in Cargo
Friday, 16 September 2022 03:52
Businescafe - Wheelchair Tennis, a sport that has created Paralympians of the calibre of Suresh Ranjan Dharmasena for Sri Lanka, has received a further commitment of support from the China Merchants Foundation (CMF) and Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) with a donation of US$ 35,000 (Rs 12.9 million at current exchange rates). ...
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CICT named Best Container Terminal of its capacity in Asia for 6th successive year

Published in Cargo
Wednesday, 14 September 2022 04:09
Businesscafe - Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) has been crowned the Best Container Terminal in Asia in the Under 4 million TEUs category for the sixth consecutive year, in just seven full years since it commenced full operations in mid-2014. ...
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CICT rewards its champions at South Asia’s first quay crane operators’ competition

Published in Cargo
Wednesday, 07 September 2022 13:11
Businesscafe - Six years after he began operating a Mega Gantry Quay Crane at the South Terminal of the Port of Colombo, Chathuranga Pushpakumara was adjudged the champion quay crane operator at Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT), winning the first competition of its kind in South Asia. ...
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CICT Ranked Among Top 15 Container Terminals Worldwide by the Container Port Performance Index 2021

Published in Cargo
Monday, 06 June 2022 03:57
Businesscafe - The World Bank Group and S&P Global Market Intelligence have ranked the Port of Colombo as the No.1 Port in South Asia and Indian Subcontinent, for efficiency, in The Container Port Performance Index 2021. ...
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Under "Hope Village Project" initiative, CICT and CMF open Community Centre in Pannila

Published in Development
Thursday, 02 June 2022 05:22
  Businesscafe - Colombo International Container Terminals Limited (CICT) together with the social responsibility arm of its parent company, China Merchants Foundation (CMF), has successfully commissioned, built and donated a well-equipped, two-storey Community Centre Building to the Pannila Village, in Horana. ...
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