Ministry of Ports and Shipping (Sri Lanka)

Ministry of Ports and Shipping
වරාය හා නාවික අමාත්‍යාංශය
துறைமுகங்கள் மற்றும் கப்பற்றுறை அமைச்சு
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Headquarters 19 Chaithya Road, Colombo 1
6°56′17″N 79°50′37″E / 6.938059°N 79.843677°E / 6.938059; 79.843677
Annual budget
  • LKR 0.3 billion (2017, recurrent)
  • LKR 2 billion (2017, capital)
Minister responsible
Deputy Minister responsible
Ministry executive
  • L. P. Jayampathy, Ministry Secretary
Child agencies
  • Sri Lanka Ports Authority
  • Ceylon Shipping Corporation
  • Directorate of Merchant Shipping
  • Shipping and Aviation Information and Research (Private) Limited
Website portmin.gov.lk

The Ministry of Ports and Shipping (Sinhala: වරාය හා නාවික අමාත්‍යාංශය Varāya hā Nāvika Amathyanshaya; Tamil: துறைமுகங்கள் மற்றும் கப்பற்றுறை அமைச்சு) is a cabinet ministry of the Government 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 Mahinda Samarasinghe 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
Montague JayawickramaUnited National Party23 March 19601960Dudley SenanayakeMinister of Nationalised Services, Shipping and Transport[5]
T. B. IlangaratneSri Lanka Freedom Party23 July 1960Sirimavo BandaranaikeMinister of Commerce, Trade, Food and Shipping[6]
P. B. G. KalugallaSri Lanka Freedom PartySirimavo BandaranaikeMinister of Shipping, Aviation and Tourism[7]
Wimala KannangaraUnited National Party23 July 1977J. R. Jayewardene[8][9]
Lalith AthulathmudaliUnited National PartyMinister of Trade and Shipping[10]
Abdul Razak MunsoorUnited National Party18 February 198928 March 1990Ranasinghe Premadasa[11][12]
Rupa KarunathilakeUnited National Party30 March 199014 March 1991Minister of Ports and Shipping[13][14]
Alick AluwihareUnited National Party14 March 1991[13][14]
M. H. M. AshraffSri Lanka Muslim Congress19 August 1994D. B. WijetungaMinister of Shipping, Ports and Rehabilitation[15][16]
Rauff HakeemSri Lanka Muslim Congress19 October 200020 June 2001Chandrika KumaratungaMinister of Internal and International Trade Commerce, Muslim Religious Affairs and Shipping Development[17][18][19][20]
Mahinda RajapaksaSri Lanka Freedom Party14 September 2001Minister of Ports, Shipping and Fisheries[21][22]
Rauff HakeemSri Lanka Muslim Congress12 December 2001Minister of Ports Development and Shipping[23][24]
Mangala SamaraweeraSri Lanka Freedom Party10 April 2004Minister of Ports and Aviation[25][26][27]
23 November 2005Mahinda Rajapaksa[28][29][30][31][32][33]
Mahinda RajapaksaSri Lanka Freedom Party23 April 2010Minister of Ports and Aviation[34][35]
22 November 2010Minister of Ports and Highways
Arjuna Ranatunga12 January 2015Maithripala SirisenaMinister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation[36][37][38][39]
Sri Lanka Freedom Party[40][41]22 March 2015
22 March 2015Minister of Ports and Shipping[42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49]
Democratic National Movement[50][51]22 May 2017
Mahinda SamarasingheSri Lanka Freedom Party22 May 2017[49][52][53]

Secretaries

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Shipping Secretaries
Name Took office Left office Title Refs
K. V. P. Ranjith de Silva25 April 2010Ports and Aviation Secretary[54]
Sujatha Cooray22 November 2010Ports and Highways Secretary[55]
L. P. Jayampathy19 January 2015Ports, Shipping and Aviation Secretary[56]
8 September 2015Ports and Shipping Affairs Secretary[57][58][59]

References

  1. ↑ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications THE CONSTITUTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA Notification" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1933/13. 21 September 2015.
  2. ↑ "Cabinet Ministers". President's Media Division News.
  3. ↑ "Deputy Ministers". President's Media Division News.
  4. ↑ "Secretaries to the Ministries". President's Media Division News.
  5. ↑ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 17: Assassination of Bandaranaike". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story.
  6. ↑ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 18: Srimavo - weeping arrogance". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story.
  7. ↑ Sri Lanka Year Book 1975 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 18–19.
  8. ↑ Sri Lanka Year Book 1977 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 17–18.
  9. ↑ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 25: War or peace?". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story.
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  12. ↑ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 37: Talking peace". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story.
  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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-23.
  14. 1 2 Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 45: War continues with brutality". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story.
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