Dialog Axiata and Royal College Colombo bag first ever Exim and Logistics Quiz

• EDB takes a lead role with Shippers’ Academy Colombo to support capacity building in exports and logistics
• 40 public, private and schools teams add colour to the mega quiz
• Million rupees worth of prices and gifts awarded to winners and participants
• Industry and public-sector support makes the event a remarkable success
• Daily FT and MTV/MBC official media partners

For the past, eight years, the Shippers’ Academy Colombo (SAC) pioneered and introduced high quality corporate quizzes to the Sri Lankan industry. The SAC is the only organisation that brought in international teams from the Central Banks of the region when it inaugurated the Governor’s Challenge Trophy with the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. Subsequently the Terminal Operators’ Cup in association with the terminals of Colombo was launched. 

“It is all about capacity building and getting people to read more and be more knowledgeable in their business area, where we promote general knowledge to create a better business environment, it helps companies and individuals as it also brings connectivity between the trading community, government and state institutions. This event would have not been possible to be so high standard if not for our sponsors,” said Shippers’ Academy Colombo CEO Rohan Masakorala. The ExIm & Logistics Trophy is the third such quiz focused on the development of the export and logistics industry of Sri Lanka, and the 9th overall quiz of SAC where international trade related companies and service providers competed  for this prestigious trophy which was awarded together with the Sri Lanka Export Development Board which supported the event to be launched under the able leadership of Indira Mallwatte who is also currently involved in the National Export Strategy (NES) project of the Ministry of Development Strategies and International Trade.

The corporate quiz was conducted by the Shippers’ Academy Colombo’s partner International Quizzing Association Sri Lanka. The event was held on 9 March at the Galadari Hotel with 40 teams taking part in this inaugural challenge trophy including leading schools joining it for the first time. Ruwan Senanayake, the quiz master, appreciated the Shippers’ Academy work over a period of nine years for organising such high-quality events. The quiz distributed gifts and prices to winners and participants which amounted to a million rupees.

The Dialog Axiata team were the overall winners and Royal College, Colombo who won the schools championship also came overall first runners up and Ananda College, Colombo came the second runners up.

The Chief Guest was Thorbjørn Gaustadsæther, the ambassador to Norway in Sri Lanka and the guest of honour being the Chairperson of the Export Development Board (EDB) Indira Malwatte and special guest representing the exporters was the Chairman Tea Exporters’ Association of Sri Lanka Jayantha Karunaratna who gave away the awards which included six sector winners too.