MAY Celebrating 100 years of global logistics and transport 04 CILT Centenary Year Celebration 06 CILT International Centenary Convention 2019 Ashan Wickramasinghe 07 35th Annual General Meeting 09 Workshop on Road Safety 09 CILT Accreditation Audits at KDU 1 0 Membership Drive at EFL Logistics Campus Indeewari Chandrasekera 1 0 CILT Central Chapter Formation 1 1 PIMA/CILT Joint Event on BRI Impacts to Sri Lanka 1 2 NEXT/CILT Joint CPD Talk 1 2 KDU Logistics Day 2019 1 2 Meeting Prof. Ryoo of Korea 1 3 Oxfam “NOT ON MY BUS” Campaign Amra Zareer 1 3 Courtesy Call on the New SLPA Chairman Pasindu Pathiranage 1 3 SCSE 2019 Conference Endorsement by CILT Neethu Singh 1 3 CILT SL Secretariat Celebrates Sinhala and Tamil New Year Dushmika Senanayake Yasoda Gamage Feature Article Shakkkya Perera Manjari Nigamuni 1 4 Revolutionising Sri Lanka with LPG: A Conversation with a Truly Hashan Rahubaddha Sri Lankan Entrepreneur and Visionary - Mr. W. K. H. Wegapitiya, Chairman – LAUGFS Holdings WiLAT Anuradha Dilrukshi 1 6 Balance For Better and WiLAT 6th Year Anniversary [email protected] 1 7 WiLAT 6th Annual General Meeting YPF 1 9 YPF Explore 2 0 YPF Inspire V5 Industry Features [email protected] 2 1 LAUGFS Inaugurates LPG Transhipment Terminal 2 2 Turnaround of Fortunes for HIP 2 3 Global Maritime Industry Trends and Innovations 2 5 Breaking Glass Ceilings with Dhashma Karunaratne 2 6 Corporate Partner News: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cilt-sri-lanka-25058a126/ SAGT Hat - trick Win at Global Ports Forum Integrated Logistics Hub by LogiPark International Ltd. DIMO’s ‘Life to Reef’ Project Advantis with Trustworthy.ae Break Ground for an ICD SLPA to Purchase More STS Cranes 2 7 Member Achievements 2 8 New CILT Members 2 9 Cartoon & Puzzle Dear Readers, On behalf of the CILT Sri Lanka LINK Magazine Editorial Team, let me convey our profound sadness on the recent events that have taken place in our country. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their loved ones during this difficult time. As Sri Lankans, all of us should work towards ensuring such tragedies are never repeated. Let us join hands as one nation and work for the advancement of all Sri Lankans. This year CILT is marking the centenary year. Over the last hundred years CILT has introduced and implemented many incredible initiatives that have revolutionised this industry and forever changed the way goods and people are moved around the world. This is indeed a proud moment for all CILT members, throughout the global fraternity. In commemorating this momentous occasion, this year’s CILT International Convention, to be held in Manchester, England from the 16th – 18th June, is expected to be truly remarkable. Whilst I encourage you to seriously consider being a part of the CILT International Convention, I humbly request all of you to join me in wishing CILT a Happy 100th Birthday! The focus of this edition of the LINK is on the Maritime Sector and its future. Two-thirds of our beloved planet Earth is covered in water, mainly comprising our vast oceans. For Sri Lanka particularly, being an island nation, the maritime sector is not only important from an economic perspective, it is part of our very existence. Therefore, understanding and harnessing its potential in a sustainable and efficient manner will determine how we progress as an industry, as a nation, Ashan Wickramasinghe, MILT and as a global citizen for generations to come. Until next time… 03 CILT CILT Centenary Year Celebration (1919-2019) In year 2019, The Chartered Institute It was my responsibility of Logistics and Transport celebrates to create an organization its centenary where it will dedicate that would change the the year across its membership to perceived standards of recognize and celebrate its staff and the transport and set new volunteers who have supported to build standards across the the Institute over the time. As CILT Link country. The war gave Issues for 2019 will bring you the history the layman a platform and milestones of CILT, this edition of to criticize the way CILT Link features an extract from an this country moves its interview by Focus Magazine of CILT Sir Eric Geddes most valuable goods UK with Sir Eric Geddes, First President and they witnessed the of the Institute of Transport (1919– You were announced as failure of trying to move 20) about his tenure as thePresident the first President of the goods and vehicles. In of the Institute of Transport and his Institute of Transport peace time, we had an expectations for the Institute in 2019. between 1919 and 1920. opportunity to change Could you tell us a little that. about this role? What were your hopes information and ideas. The Institute or subjects relating thereto, for the newly formed is here to promote and encourage and the Institute of Transport Institute and what knowledge of the art for transport must also be the go-to place it might bring to and the appliances connected, to for the delivery of lectures and transport and logistics provide facilities for the study of promoting education within our professionals? exchange of information and ideas to sectors. We must investigate the raise the status of those engaged in ways we can do that through The war demonstrated the the industry. the holding of classes and need for a co-ordinated examinations, the awarding of transport system and for It is the duty of this Institute to hold certificates, medals, scholarships such to exist, a forum such meetings for reading and discussing and diplomas in connection with as the Institute is needed communications bearing upon traffic and transport. to facilitate the exchange of traffic and transport and methods 04 CILT You were Britain’s first the ‘Napoleon of Transport’ and I am proud that I brought an honest and Minister of Transport in open viewpoint to the benches, despite how that may have been viewed 1919. What challenges did by other peers. By the end, I did not really have the appetite for political you encounter infighting and chose to resign from my post in November 1921. during your tenure? The appointment was a real honour. We were responsible for railways, roads, canals and docks. I was one of the classes of David Lloyd George’s ‘businessmen in Government’ experiment, and, while I was not above politics, there was always that feeling that I was recruited for my technical expertise, rather than parliamentary strength or skills. I remember being coined Could you tell us more saw production soar and required analysis as a staple business about your significant role a feasible and efficient method of strategy, and I think such an shaping logistics during piling these into French docks. I guess approach endeared me to David the war? you could say that in France we were Lloyd George. I was brought in stockpiling our weaponry, but were to serve in his department as For 18 months before war unable to distribute these to our Deputy Director of Supply, before broke out, I participated in the troops. being dispatched to France in preparation of mobilization 1916 as Inspector-General of timetables, transport plans I led a three-man team over to France Sir Douglas Haig's British for the maintenance of food to advice on transportation and was Expeditionary Force [BEF]. supplies and the development later appointed Director General of intercompanytelephone of Military Railways and Inspector- We were dubbed ‘The Army communications. During General of Transportation with the behind the Army’ and I the war, I became known as rank of Major General. We got the suppose you could say that we one of the ‘men of push and ports working efficiently and built revolutionized the BEF's go’ that was brought into light railways to bring materials to the transport and supply mechanism, government service by the front. I predicted that by March 1916 dividing transportation into four Minister of Munitions. Here, British industry would be delivering separate areas to cover docks, I was responsible for rational 20,000 rifles a week. light railways, railways and roads. goals for rifles, light and By the time I left this role in 1917, heavy machine-guns, and we I have always favored a statistical I knew that munitions efficiency had been transformed. What would you like the influence government – they do not field and key stakeholders see Institute to look like in speak the same language as us, so the the Institute of Transport as the 2019 when it celebrates Institute must do all in its power to home of knowledge, ideas and its centenary? get the industry’s voice heard. information to ensure the success of our great profession. I believe that the Institute has We are already planning to seek a huge opportunity to be the chartered status, and I hope this will [Interview and Images Source leading voice for professionals remain for many years, decades and Credit: Focus Magazine, CILT UK – involved in our sectors. We centuries to come. I hope membership March 2019] should use our expertise to continues to grow and experts in our 05 CILT CILT International Centenary Convention 2019 will be held in Midland Hotel, Manchester from 16th to 18th June. Delegates will enjoy an exciting three day program including guest international speakers, workshop and interactive sessions, the Women in Logistics and Transport (WiLAT) conference, the Young Professionals Conference, and opportunities to be involved in shaping the future of our Institute and our industry. Program Overview 16 – 18 June 2019 th June Day 1 16 Sunday Manchester, UK • Individual conference sessions