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Ministry of Ports and Shipping
Ministry overview
JurisdictionGovernment of Sri Lanka
Headquarters19 Chaithya Road, Colombo
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
Websiteportmin.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
!align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Montague Jayawickrama United National Party 23 March 1960 1960 !align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Dudley Senanayake Minister of Nationalised Services, Shipping and Transport [5]
!align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color;"| T. B. Ilangaratne Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 July 1960 !align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Commerce, Trade, Food and Shipping [6]
!align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color;"| P. B. G. Kalugalla Sri Lanka Freedom Party !align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Shipping, Aviation and Tourism [7]
!align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Wimala Kannangara United National Party 23 July 1977 !align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;" rowspan=2| J. R. Jayewardene [8][9]
!align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Lalith Athulathmudali United National Party Minister of Trade and Shipping [10]
!align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Abdul Razak Munsoor United National Party 18 February 1989 28 March 1990 !align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;" rowspan=3| Ranasinghe Premadasa [11][12]
!align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Rupa Karunathilake United National Party 30 March 1990 14 March 1991 Minister of Ports and Shipping [13][14]
!align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Alick Aluwihare United National Party 14 March 1991 [13][14]
!align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Muslim Congress/meta/color; color:white;"| M. H. M. Ashraff Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 19 August 1994 !align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;"| D. B. Wijetunga Minister of Shipping, Ports and Rehabilitation [15][16]
!align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Muslim Congress/meta/color; color:white;"| Rauff Hakeem Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 19 October 2000 20 June 2001 !align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color; color:white;" rowspan=4| Chandrika Kumaratunga Minister of Internal and International Trade Commerce, Muslim Religious Affairs and Shipping Development [17][18][19][20]
!align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Mahinda Rajapaksa Sri Lanka Freedom Party 14 September 2001 Minister of Ports, Shipping and Fisheries [21][22]
!align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Muslim Congress/meta/color; color:white;"| Rauff Hakeem Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 12 December 2001 Minister of Ports Development and Shipping [23][24]
!align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color; color:white;" rowspan=2| Mangala Samaraweera Sri Lanka Freedom Party 10 April 2004 Minister of Ports and Aviation [25][26][27]
23 November 2005 !align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color; color:white;" rowspan=3| Mahinda Rajapaksa [28][29][30][31][32][33]
!align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color; color:white;" rowspan=2| Mahinda Rajapaksa 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 !align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color; color:white;" rowspan=4| Maithripala Sirisena Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation [36][37][38][39]
!align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color;" rowspan=2| 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]

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