Master Divers (Pvt) Ltd., leading marine services company, will invest over Rs. 200 million to increase their operations in Trincomalee and Colombo.
Founder and Chairman, Master Divers and W A Tucker, Ariyaseela Wickramanayake, said that due to south west monsoon their harbour operations in Colombo had become almost impossible and they moved some of their operations to Trincomalee. “We now see this as a major success and would now look at introducing warehousing facilities to Trinco.” In addition we will also add more infrastructures to our Kelaniya warehouse.”
Speaking to Daily News at the 40 years celebrations in the industry under the theme Greater Tomorrow’ he said that Trincomalee is one of best Ports in the world and they foresee tremendous potential.
“Today though many are claiming to have played a key role in creating Hambantota Harbor I am proud to say that it was my concept that saw the light of the project. “This harbour was used centuries ago. I saw the potential in this harbour 45 years and now I am happy that it is finally up and running. Master Divers was established in 1978 mainly to take this industry away from foreigners dependency and today we have achieved that.”
“We been a part of many historical moments of Sri Lanka, where the professional divers from Master Divers carried out an emergency dive at Victoria Dam when it was completely flooded with its outlets were jammed and helped preserve the Victoria Dam for future generations. Master Divers also transported the 390 megawatt Muthurajawela Power plant as well as the Puttalam power plants, from the Colombo harbor to their present locations.
“Our next step is to service the demand in the remaining parts of the South Asian region and become South Asia’s foremost diving and marine service provider,” said Director Akmal Wickramanayake.
“Master Divers plans to venture into new business such as Logistics, Bonded Warehousing in Trincomalee, Hambantota and Colombo along with many other new services within next five years to provide more turnkey and value added services to our customers,” he added.
“Today Master Divers are engaged in off-shore and harbour based marine activities and maritime construction activities and maritime construction work in Thailand, Maldives, India, Singapore and Saudi Arabia said Director, “said Toshan Wickramanayake.
“Master Divers owns the largest savage tug in the region and the largest hull cleaning machine in the world and we are the only marine organization in Asian Region with such accolade.
Master Divers are engaged in towage, salvage, marine engineering, civil engineering, or any other connected services.
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