Ship leasing from GIFT City is drawing global attention as India aims to improve its modest 1.4% share of global shipping tonnage. Key comp...

China has been trying to expand its influence in Sri Lanka, which is located on one of the world's busiest shipping routes in what India co...

Scientists from China and Sri Lanka are collaborating on "marine scientific" activities aboard the Chinese research vessel 'Shi Yan 6' in S...

The Sri Lankan foreign ministry said on October 29 that a Chinese vessel has been granted permission to carry out marine research off the i...

A Chinese research ship, the Shi Yan 6, has been given permission to dock at a Sri Lankan port for replenishment, raising concerns in neigh...

Though it is a known fact that the Yuan Wang-6 is a spy ship of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), sent to the Indian Ocean Region t...

"What happens in our neighbourhood, any development, which has a bearing on our security issues, is of interest to us," Jaishankar said whi...

China is Sri Lanka's biggest bilateral creditor, owning over 10 percent of the island's foreign debt. Beijing's support is essential for Co...

Chinese military survey ship Yuan Wang 5 docked at Hambantota port on Tuesday. Though Lanka's financial needs may have shaped its decision,...

"As you said, Sri Lanka has given Yuan Wang-5 the permission to berth at its port," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a m...

New Delhi is suspicious of Beijing's increasing presence in the Indian Ocean and influence in Sri Lanka, seeing both as being firmly within...

The maritime force also recently issued a request for information (RFI) to foreign companies for the lease of 24 twin-engine armed light ut...

Sources said that foreign vendors have been approached by the Navy to understand if such choppers – typically used to transport supplies an...

The ports, shipping and waterways ministry has issued the draft Merchant Shipping Bill, 2020, making way for these changes.

Flagship explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has protested against a directorate general of Shipping circular which gives owners of In...

On February 14, 2007, Vivek Singh Bist, a 25-year-old officer with Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), had jumped off the ship ‘Desh Shant...

The foreign trade policy did not spell out any measures for import of suitable tuna fishing vessels.