{"id":265181,"date":"2023-10-19T19:18:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=265181"},"modified":"2023-10-19T19:18:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:48:36","slug":"india-sri-lanka-ferry-service-restarted-after-40-yrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-sri-lanka-ferry-service-restarted-after-40-yrs\/","title":{"rendered":"India-Sri Lanka ferry service restarted after 40 yrs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>India-Sri Lanka ferry service restarted after 40 yrs<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> \u201cIndian Express\u201d on 18th October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India and Sri Lanka have inaugurated passenger ferry service from Tamil Nadu to Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A ferry is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a watercraft that carries passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo, across a body of water<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the ferry service launched between India and Sri Lanka?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The passenger ferry service between India and Sri Lanka will run from Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu to Kankesanthurai in Jaffna, Northern Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A high-speed vessel named &#8216;<\/span><b>Cheriyapani\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is being operated by Shipping Corporation of India to run this ferry service.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the benefits of <\/b><b>ferry service between India and Sri Lanka?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can promote religious tourism in the coastal regions of both countries.For example, Indian travelers can access significant religious sites in Colombo and southern Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The service will also boost regional commerce and trade.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What has been the historical maritime connection between India and Sri Lanka?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There has been a historical maritime connection between India and Sri Lanka.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indo-Ceylon Express, known as Boat Mail, operated between Chennai and Colombo via the Thoothukudi port from the early 1900s until 1982.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the civil war in Sri Lanka caused these services to stop.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia-Sri Lanka ferry service restarted after 40 yrs\u201d published in \u201cIndian Express\u201d on 18th October 2023 What is the News? India and Sri Lanka have inaugurated passenger ferry service from Tamil Nadu to Sri Lanka. Note: A ferry is a watercraft that carries passengers, and sometimes vehicles&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-sri-lanka-ferry-service-restarted-after-40-yrs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India-Sri Lanka ferry service restarted after 40 yrs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,1],"tags":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-265181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-uncategorized","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":46,"cached_at":1698062243,"cached_date":1698189480},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}