Mattala ideal for ship’s crew changes: ILM Shipping CEO

Text and pix by P.D. De Silva 

ILM Shipping Services Ltd. CEO Hadley Rodrigo said that the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport was ideal for ship›s crew changes.

He added that the superlative COVID management introduced by the Government has given an immense opportunity to world leading ship-management companies to use ‘OPL-Galle’ to carry out ‘crew changes’. 

ILM Shipping Services, a subsidiary of International Logistics and Movers Ltd., repatriated 33 seafarers from HRI, Mattala on 4 August.