Sri Lanka, India 'Keen' To Resume Ferry Services

COLOMBO: India and Sri Lanka are keen to resume ferry services "as early as next month" for greater connectivity between the people of the two countries.

The resumption of the ferry services between Talaimannar and Rameswaram and Colombo and Tuticorin was one of the issues discussed by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj with her Sri Lankan counterpart Mangala Samaraweera.
The issue was also discussed with Sri Lanka recently by a visiting Indian trade delegation headed by Commerce Secretary Rajeev Kher.

Commenting on the bilateral talks between Swaraj and Samaraweera, Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry spokesman A M J Sadiq said both ministers were keen to see an early resumption of the ferry services.

"They were keen to see that (the services) started as early as next month," Sadiq said.

The Colombo-Tuticorin ferry service, which was resumed after the end of the military conflict with the LTTE in 2009, had to be suspended because it was not commercially viable.
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