Halcyon days of Ceylon Shipping Corporation
Member of Company of Master Mariners of Sri Lanka This article is dedicated to Captain P A Virasinghe, who passed away recently. He was the first Sri Lankan to command the Ceylon Shipping Corporation (CSC) ships. Appointed the Master on Lanka Kanthi in 1972, he was instrumental in getting the things right and raising the bar for future deck officers and marine engineers. The CSC, established about five decades ago, was thriving with a healthy bottom line; it continued to serve Sri Lanka with our own managers and seafarers to run our ships. Although SL was self-sufficient in rice before the ad...