Sri Lanka is trying to set up an aircraft repair centre at Mattala International Airport, Minister of Ports and Aviation Bimal Rathanayake said.
Sri Lanka had spent 36.5 billion rupees to build Mattala International Airport. The loss in the past 5 years was 38.5 billion rupees, he told parliament.
“We are discussing with big international engineering companies whether we can set up an aircraft repair centre,” Minister Rathnayake said.
“We have got some kind of greenlight on that.”
Sri Lanka had earlier called for foreign companies to set up an an aircraft Maintainance and Repair Organization (MRO) at Mattala.
A Russian and Indian consortium were selected to set up an MRO but the final contracts were not signed.
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