Ministry of Ports and Shipping (Sri Lanka)

The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Aviation^[2] (Sinhala: වරාය, නාවික හා ගුවන් සේවා අමාත්‍යාංශය; Tamil: துறைமுகங்கள், கப்பற்றுறை மற்றும் விமான சேவைகள் அமைச்சு) is a cabinet ministry of the Government of Sri Lanka responsible for ports and shipping. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on ports and shipping and other subjects which come under its purview.^[3] The current Minister is Vijitha Herath.^[1]The ministry's secretary is M.M.P.K. Mayadunne.^[4]

Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Aviation

වරාය, නාවික හා ගුවන් සේවා අමාත්‍යාංශය துறைமுகங்கள், கப்பற்றுறை மற்றும் விமான சேவைகள் அமைச்சு
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction	Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters	19 Chaithya Road, Colombo 1 6.938059°N 79.843677°E / 6.938059; 79.843677
Annual budget	LKR 0.3 billion (2017, recurrent) LKR 2 billion (2017, capital)
Minister responsible	Vijitha Herath[1], Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation
Ministry executive	M. M. P. K. Mayadunne, Ministry Secretary
Child agencies	Sri Lanka Ports Authority Ceylon Shipping Corporation Directorate of Merchant Shipping Shipping and Aviation Information and Research (Private) Limited
Website	portmin.gov.lk

Ministers

The Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.

Ministers of Shipping

Name		Portrait	Party	Took office	Left office	Head of government		Ministerial title	Refs
	Montague Jayawickrama		United National Party	23 March 1960	1960		Dudley Senanayake	Minister of Nationalised Services, Shipping and Transport	[5]
	T. B. Ilangaratne		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 July 1960			Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Commerce, Trade, Food and Shipping	[6]
	P. B. G. Kalugalla		Sri Lanka Freedom Party				Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Shipping, Aviation and Tourism	[7]
	Wimala Kannangara		United National Party	23 July 1977			J. R. Jayewardene		[8][9]
	Lalith Athulathmudali		United National Party					Minister of Trade and Shipping	[10]
	Abdul Razak Munsoor		United National Party	18 February 1989	28 March 1990		Ranasinghe Premadasa		[11][12]
	Rupa Karunathilake		United National Party	30 March 1990	14 March 1991			Minister of Ports and Shipping	[13][14]
	Alick Aluwihare		United National Party	14 March 1991					[13][14]
	M. H. M. Ashraff		Sri Lanka Muslim Congress		19 August 1994		D. B. Wijetunga	Minister of Shipping, Ports and Rehabilitation	[15][16]
	Rauff Hakeem		Sri Lanka Muslim Congress	19 October 2000	20 June 2001		Chandrika Kumaratunga	Minister of Internal and International Trade Commerce, Muslim Religious Affairs and Shipping Development	[17][18][19][20]
	Mahinda Rajapaksa		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	14 September 2001				Minister of Ports, Shipping and Fisheries	[21][22]
	Rauff Hakeem		Sri Lanka Muslim Congress	12 December 2001				Minister of Ports Development and Shipping	[23][24]
	Mangala Samaraweera		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	10 April 2004				Minister of Ports and Aviation	[25][26][27]
				23 November 2005			Mahinda Rajapaksa		[28][29][30][31][32][33]
	Mahinda Rajapaksa		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 April 2010				Minister of Ports and Aviation	[34][35]
				22 November 2010				Minister of Ports and Highways
	Arjuna Ranatunga			12 January 2015			Maithripala Sirisena	Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation	[36][37][38][39]
			Sri Lanka Freedom Party[40][41]		22 March 2015
				22 March 2015				Minister of Ports and Shipping	[42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49]
			Democratic National Movement[50][51]		22 May 2017
	Mahinda Samarasinghe		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	22 May 2017	12 August 2020				[49][52][53]
	Rohitha Abeygunawardena		12 August 2020	18 April 2022
	Pramitha Tennakoon			18 April 2022

Secretaries

Shipping Secretaries

Name	Took office	Left office	Title	Refs
K. V. P. Ranjith de Silva	25 April 2010		Ports and Aviation Secretary	[54]
Sujatha Cooray	22 November 2010		Ports and Highways Secretary	[55]
L. P. Jayampathy	19 January 2015		Ports, Shipping and Aviation Secretary	[56]
	8 September 2015		Ports and Shipping Affairs Secretary	[57][58][59]