Goods container trains back on Northern track

Irangika RANGE

After a lapse of 20 years, a special train consisting entirely of goods containers left the Colombo Fort Railway Station on Monday morning to Thandikulam in Vavuniya.

Accordingly, a train carrying 12 containers consisting building materials required for the massive construction projects in the Northern Province was ceremonially flagged off at the Fort Railway Station.

The Sri Lanka Railways resumed its container transport service with the objective of accelerating the development drive in the North. Sri Lanka Railway's General Manager, P.P. Wijesekera said that more trains carrying 15 containers will be deployed to the Northern line to transport food and other goods for the Northerners and development activities of the North.

Necessary steps have been taken to transport containers carrying essential goods and food via the railways to the North once the containers were released from the Colombo Port. There are more 1,800 containers to be transported to the Northern region.