Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Sri Lanka Dockyard in Rs77mn March quarter loss

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard suffered a loss of 77 million rupees in the March 2016 quarter against a profit of 135 million a year ago, a stock exchange filing said.

Sales of the yard, majority owned by Japan’s Onomichi Dockyard, fell 26% to 2.7 billion rupees.

The yard has been hit by the downturn in oil prices which has affected the offshore oil field support sector

Colombo Dockyard declared a loss of a billion rupees in the December 2015 quarter as it was forced to cancel an order and lower prices for new ships ordered by clients serving the oil industry.

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