Ministry of Ports and Shipping (Sri Lanka)

Ministry of Ports and Shipping
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters 19 Chaithya Road, Colombo
6°56′17.40″N 79°50′37.30″E / 6.9381667°N 79.8436944°E / 6.9381667; 79.8436944Coordinates: 6°56′17.40″N 79°50′37.30″E / 6.9381667°N 79.8436944°E / 6.9381667; 79.8436944
Annual budget
  • Rs. 0.2 billion (2016, recurrent)
  • Rs. 0.5 billion (2016, capital)
Minister responsible
Deputy Minister responsible
Ministry executive
  • L. P. Jayampathy, Secretary
Child agencies
  • Ceylon Shipping Corporation Limited
  • Merchant Shipping Secretariat
  • Shipping and Aviation Information and Research (Private) Limited
  • Sri Lanka Ports Authority
Website portmin.gov.lk

The Ministry of Ports and Shipping is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for ports and shipping. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on ports and shipping and other subjects which come under its purview.[1] The current Minister of Ports and Shipping and Deputy Minister of Ports and Shipping are Arjuna Ranatunga and Nishantha Muthuhettigama respectively.[2][3] The ministry's secretary is L. P. Jayampathy.[4]

Ministers

The Minister of Ports and Shipping is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.

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Ministers of Shipping
Name Portrait Party Took office Left office Head of government Ministerial title Refs
Jayawickrama, MontagueMontague Jayawickrama United National Party 23 March 1960 1960 Senanayake, DudleyDudley Senanayake Minister of Nationalised Services, Shipping and Transport [5]
Ilangaratne, T. B.T. B. Ilangaratne Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 July 1960 Bandaranaike, SirimavoSirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Commerce, Trade, Food and Shipping [6]
Kalugalla, P. B. G.P. B. G. Kalugalla Sri Lanka Freedom Party Bandaranaike, SirimavoSirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Shipping, Aviation and Tourism [7]
Kannangara, WimalaWimala Kannangara United National Party 23 July 1977 Jayewardene, J. R.J. R. Jayewardene [8][9]
Athulathmudali, LalithLalith Athulathmudali United National Party Minister of Trade and Shipping [10]
Munsoor, Abdul RazakAbdul Razak Munsoor United National Party 18 February 1989 28 March 1990 Premadasa, RanasingheRanasinghe Premadasa [11][12]
Karunathilake, RupaRupa Karunathilake United National Party 30 March 1990 14 March 1991 Minister of Ports and Shipping [13][14]
Aluwihare, AlickAlick Aluwihare United National Party 14 March 1991 [13][14]
Ashraff, M. H. M.M. H. M. Ashraff Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 19 August 1994 Wijetunga, D. B.D. B. Wijetunga Minister of Shipping, Ports and Rehabilitation [15][16]
Hakeem, RauffRauff Hakeem Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 19 October 2000 20 June 2001 Kumaratunga, ChandrikaChandrika Kumaratunga Minister of Internal and International Trade Commerce, Muslim Religious Affairs and Shipping Development [17][18][19][20]
Rajapaksa, MahindaMahinda Rajapaksa Sri Lanka Freedom Party 14 September 2001 Minister of Ports, Shipping and Fisheries [21][22]
Hakeem, RauffRauff Hakeem Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 12 December 2001 Minister of Ports Development and Shipping [23][24]
Samaraweera, MangalaMangala Samaraweera Sri Lanka Freedom Party 10 April 2004 Minister of Ports and Aviation [25][26][27]
23 November 2005 Rajapaksa, MahindaMahinda Rajapaksa [28][29][30][31][32][33]
Rajapaksa, MahindaMahinda Rajapaksa Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 April 2010 Minister of Ports and Aviation [34][35]
22 November 2010 Minister of Ports and Highways
Ranatunga, ArjunaArjuna Ranatunga 12 January 2015 Sirisena, MaithripalaMaithripala Sirisena Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation [36][37][38][39]
Sri Lanka Freedom Party[40][41] 22 March 2015
22 March 2015 Minister of Ports and Shipping [42][43][44][45][46][47][48]
Democratic National Movement[49][50]

Secretaries

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Shipping Secretaries
Name Took office Left office Title Refs
de Silva, K. V. P. RanjithK. V. P. Ranjith de Silva 25 April 2010 Ports and Aviation Secretary [51]
Cooray, SujathaSujatha Cooray 22 November 2010 Ports and Highways Secretary [52]
Jayampathy, L. P.L. P. Jayampathy 19 January 2015 Ports, Shipping and Aviation Secretary [53]
8 September 2015 Ports and Shipping Affairs Secretary [54][55][56]

References

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  13. 1 2 de Silva, W. P. P.; Ferdinando, T. C. L. 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka (PDF). Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. pp. 213–214.
  14. 1 2 Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 45: War continues with brutality". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story.
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