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| Saturday, 6 March 2004 |
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by Wasantha Ramanayake The Supreme Court issued an interim order on the Sri Lanka Ports Authority to stay the operation of circular allegedly awarding a contract to a company to transport containers between two terminals in the Colombo Harbour. The order will be in force until Tuesday. The Bench comprised Justices C.V. Vigneswaran, T. B. Weerasuriya and Shirani Thilakawardane. The court will consider on Monday whether the interim order could be extended or not after hearing the submissions of the parties. The counsel for the petitioners submitted that the petitioners were permit holders to operate prime movers within the Colombo Harbour. The petitioners were engaged in the Inter Terminal Transfer of containers (ITT), along with the fourth respondent Sea Consortium Lanka (Private) Ltd, until a policy decision was taken to restrict the ITT services to one player, the fourth respondent on the basis to increase efficiency. The counsel submitted that the first respondent authority completely evading all principles of transparency, for extraneous and collateral but not in pursuance to any valid reasons, awarded the ITT service contract to the fifth respondent Tanyo Haulage (Pvt) Ltd. without giving the petitioners an opportunity to apply for the contract, in violation of their fundamental reasons. The Petitioners, five partners of Container Haulage Centre, cited Sri Lanka Ports Authority, Chairman Parakrama Ekanayake, Sri Lanka Ports Management and Consultancy Services, Sea Consortium Lanka (Pvt) Ltd., Tanyo Haulage (Pvt) Ltd. and the Attorney General as respondents. J.C. Weliamuna appeared for the petitioners. The matter was fixed for the extension of the interim relief for Monday. |
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