CILT-CMM P.B. Karandawala Memorial Lecture today

Managing Director H.D.A.S. Premachandra

Dr. P.B. Karandawala

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Sri Lanka will hold its 26th P.B. Karandawala Memorial Lecture today (5 March) at 5:30 p.m. at the Auditorium of the Ceylon Chamber Commerce. The lecture will conducted jointly with Company of Master Mariners.

The late Karandawala was widely regarded as a pioneer in developing the maritime sector in Sri Lanka. He had the rare distinction of being the Chairman of three State transportation entities that focus on three different modes, Ceylon Shipping Corporation, Air Ceylon and Ceylon Transport Board, during the 1970s. 

He established the National Shipping Line and structured around it several independent organisations to provide the support it needed in its nascent years, such as the Freight Bureau, the Ceylon Shipping Lines, the Port Services and the Colombo Dock Yard. He was known as a leading Economist from the Central Bank and later went on to serve the United Nations as a Shipping and Sectoral Economic Adviser to many developing countries.

The memorial lecture titled ‘Port Development – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’ will be delivered by Sri Lanka Ports Authority Managing Director H.D.A.S. Premachandra.

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) is the leading international professional body for everyone who works within supply chain, logistics and transport. The institute holds unparalleled international recognition and works towards achieving its objective of promoting, encouraging and coordinating the study of the science and art of logistics and transport through its membership, events and educational qualifications. 

With a global membership of over 35,000 CILT is present in 35 countries across the globe. CILT provides a professional identity to those in the ever-expanding logistics and transport industry. It is a strong, active and a unified professional body that is able to speak with authority on strategic issues affecting businesses and people in the industry and support their careers.