The Karandawela Memorial Lecture

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Sri Lanka, will hold the Karandawela Memorial Lecture on January 11 at 5.30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn’s, Ball Room 'C'.

The lecture on 'The Karandawela doctrine of a countervailing power in shipping for a small country - is it valid today?' will be delivered by Gordon de Silva, former Chairman of Sri Lanka Shippers' Council and former Managing Director of Hayleys Exports Ltd.

P.B. Karandawela who was the Shipping and Tourism Ministry Secretary under the late P.B.G. Kaulgalle re-invented shipping in Sri Lanka. He also introduced innovative thinking to expand the national fleet of the country, develop the ship repairing industry and deal with the strong-arm tactics of the then shipping conferences. He was the founding Chairman of the Ceylon Shipping Corporation and also held the post of Chairman, Ceylon Transport Board and Air Ceylon.

"We selected a topical subject when there is litigation on the issue of terminal handling charges and there is a review of the role of the Central Freight Bureau and the need for a countervailing power by the government. There isn't a better time to have an intellectual debate on this issue," said Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Sri Lanka Section, Saliya Senanayake.