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THESE Seats in the new Passenger Jetty terminal, are in tended for the comfort of Passengers

THIS view of the City of Colombo was taken by a staff cameraman from the newly-completed Passenger terminal in the Colombo harbour.The terminal is now being used

Harbour

Colombo Port

One reason for the wek of storage space in Colombo harbour is that discarded machinery and equipment lie at various points in the premises

Harbour

Here a diver is being Prepared to go down to the depth

Boots and lead-Weight are fitted on

Colombo Port

Port Supplement

THIS is the water tower in the Port of Colombo Corstucted by the Colombo Port Commission which took nearly 4 years to be completed

Colombo Port

The chassis have been imported to meet the acute shortage of lorries to clear essential food cargo from the port and for the transport of food stuffs throughout the country

They are queuing up again,outside Colombo Harbour! Ships waiting for berths are a common on sight now from the Galle Face Green

Mr.Wimal Amarasekera

Ship

Colombo

Both examples of the use of pre-stressed concrete in modern building

Major Mantapeuce

Fifteen lighters belonging to the Port Cargo Corporation

Colombo

The Leyden Bastion entrance to the port after last week's heavy rain

BUNKERING at quayside

SUBMARINE DOCK 18 YEARS A-BUILDING

WITH the liberalisation of imports after the Government's open trade policy

The long wait,These are some of the Ceylonese sailors who take their seats every day at the Shipping Master's office in the hope that they may get work on board a ship calling at Colombo

THEY waited to be served in the jetty restaurant yesterday

THEY SCAN NEW PORT DREDGER

With the onset of winter in the West and our Present import control restrictions number of colombo's port ware houses are bare.Our picture shows one such warehouse with a number of idle labourers in the background

President