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2. Wilfred de Soysa - Wikipedia

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   He was a proprietor of the Ceylon Morning Leader newspaper, [4] and played host to the young Hirohito and Rabindranath Tagore. [5] [6] He was knighted in the 1938 New Year Honours as a Knight Bachelor. [7] De Soysa married Senator Evelyn Yohana (née Fernando) [8] [9] and their first son Harold de Soysa was the first Ceylonese Anglican Bishop ...

3. List of government-owned companies of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   Ceylon Shipping Agency (Pvt) (Singapore) Ltd; Ceylon Shipping Lines Ltd; Ceylon Silks Ltd; Ceylon Steel Corporation Ltd; Colombo Commercial (Teas) Ltd;

4. Australian National Line - Wikipedia

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   Australian National Line was formed on 1 October 1956 as the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission with the passing of the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission Act. [1] The organisation took about forty ships previously operated by the Australian Shipping Board, which had been formed in 1946 by the Australian Federal Government. [2]

5. British India Steam Navigation Company - Wikipedia

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   The main shipping routes of the line were: Britain to India, Australia, Kenya, Tanganyika. The company ran services from India to Pakistan, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, Singapore, Malaya, Java, Thailand, Japan, Persian Gulf, East Africa and South Africa. BI had a long history of service to the British and Indian governments through trooping and other ...

6. Category:Shipping companies of Australia - Wikipedia

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7. Indian Ocean raid - Wikipedia

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   Thus it controlled access to India, the vital Allied shipping routes to the Middle East and the oilfields of the Persian Gulf. Ceylon held most of the British Empire's resources of rubber. An important harbour and naval base, Trincomalee, was located on the island’s eastern coast. Japanese propaganda had an effect on some of the Sinhalese ...

8. Port of Colombo - Wikipedia

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   However it remained a Kandyan Kingdom military outpost until it was surrendered in 1815. The Port was made the capital of the new British crown colony called Ceylon. The British decided to build houses and civilian buildings rather than making it into a military centre, giving birth to the modern Port of Colombo. [4]

9. List of largest container shipping companies - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [ 2 ]