Ministry of Ports and Shipping (Sri Lanka)

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Ministry of Ports and Shipping
Emblem of Sri Lanka.svg
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters 19 Chaithya Road, Colombo
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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.

Ministers of Shipping
Name Portrait Party Took office Left office Head of government Ministerial title Refs
Montague Jayawickrama United National Party 23 March 1960 1960 Dudley Senanayake Minister of Nationalised Services, Shipping and Transport [5]
T. B. Ilangaratne Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 July 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Commerce, Trade, Food and Shipping [6]
P. B. G. Kalugalla Sri Lanka Freedom Party Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Shipping, Aviation and Tourism [7]
Wimala Kannangara United National Party 23 July 1977 J. R. Jayewardene [8][9]
Lalith Athulathmudali United National Party Minister of Trade and Shipping [10]
Abdul Razak Munsoor United National Party 18 February 1989 28 March 1990 Ranasinghe Premadasa [11][12]
Rupa Karunathilake United National Party 30 March 1990 14 March 1991 Minister of Ports and Shipping [13][14]
Alick Aluwihare United National Party 14 March 1991 [13][14]
M. H. M. Ashraff Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 19 August 1994 D. B. Wijetunga Minister of Shipping, Ports and Rehabilitation [15][16]
Rauff Hakeem Rauff Hakeem.jpg Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 19 October 2000 20 June 2001 Chandrika Kumaratunga Minister of Internal and International Trade Commerce, Muslim Religious Affairs and Shipping Development [17][18][19][20]
Mahinda Rajapaksa 100x100px Sri Lanka Freedom Party 14 September 2001 Minister of Ports, Shipping and Fisheries [21][22]
Rauff Hakeem Rauff Hakeem.jpg Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 12 December 2001 Minister of Ports Development and Shipping [23][24]
Mangala Samaraweera Mangala Samaraweera.jpg Sri Lanka Freedom Party 10 April 2004 Minister of Ports and Aviation [25][26][27]
23 November 2005 Mahinda Rajapaksa [28][29][30][31][32][33]
Mahinda Rajapaksa 100x100px Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 April 2010 Minister of Ports and Aviation [34][35]
22 November 2010 Minister of Ports and Highways
Arjuna Ranatunga 12 January 2015 Maithripala 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

Shipping Secretaries
Name Took office Left office Title Refs
K. V. P. Ranjith de Silva 25 April 2010 Ports and Aviation Secretary [51]
Sujatha Cooray 22 November 2010 Ports and Highways Secretary [52]
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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