15 JUN: India and Sri Lanka have resumed ferry services after a gap of almost 30 years caused by the island’s civil war.
An Indian passenger vessel carrying VIPs and several hundred others arrived in Colombo from the southern India port of Tuticorin yesterday morning.
The Scotia Prince will make two return journeys a week, and will be joined shortly by a Sri Lankan vessel.
Ferry services were suspended during the war with Tamil rebels, which ended in 2009.




