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A leading importer and a manufacturer of pharmaceutical products, Hemas Pharmaceuticals (Pvt) Limited Managing Director Sanjeewa Samaranayake said the rise in prices of those drugs imported in reefer containers would be an inevitable, as a result of this new move. “In general, the costs of those pharmaceutical items will go up because of the high import costs associated with refrigerated containers and storage facilities under temperature controlled environments,” he noted. He said this rise in cost would have to be passed on to the customers. According to Samaranayake, the small scale importers will be the ones who will be severely affected as they will either have to import them on Full Container Load (FCL) basis or air freight, which is a costly affair. Alternatively, they will also face practical difficulties such as finding similar pharmaceutical importers to import such items in consolidated Less than Container Load (LCL) refrigerated shipments. |
Mirror Business further learns that, hardly any cargo in consolidated LCL shipments arrive at Colombo port. “At the moment no body brings cargo in consolidated LCL shipments to port of Colombo. For consolidation to happen, the cargo has to be of similar kind,” Sri Lanka Logistics And Freight Forwarders Association Chairman Dushmantha Karannagoda stressed. Meanwhile he also said that there are no refrigerated warehousing facilities in the Colombo port. “They have only the reefer container plugging facility but if anyone wants storage, that will have to be done through a private warehouse.” |
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