An owner-managed company in Colombo, with two desks.
Ceylon Desk does two kinds of work that are often done badly at a distance: the paperwork behind shipping and business, and buying goods at origin. Both rest on the same habit. We check the work against its source, whether that is the charter party, the ledger or the lot, before it leaves Colombo.
We are the international arm of a family of companies already working in Sri Lanka’s ports and markets: Marinec Services in shipping and Sillara Agri Tech in agricultural supply.
Operations Desk
Post-fixture and voyage accounting for shipping companies, and bookkeeping, month-end close and administration for companies and accountancy practices abroad.
Commodities Desk
Ceylon cinnamon, spices, coconut products and coconut-shell activated carbon, bought from Sri Lankan producers and shipped to buyers overseas.
What you can hold us to
Price and scope in writing
Before any work starts or any order is placed.
One named contact
Who knows your account and replies within one working day.
Checked against the source
Every figure against its document. Every certificate against your contract.
Bad news early
If something will be late or off-specification, you hear it from us first, with a plan.
Backed by two working Sri Lankan businesses
Ceylon Desk is the international arm of a family of companies already working in Sri Lanka’s ports and markets.
Behind the maritime back office
Marinec Services
Marine surveyors and consultants in Colombo since 2003. Its Master Mariners and Chief Engineers survey hulls, cargo, bunkers and machinery and support claims, so the operational questions behind a laytime statement or a voyage account go to people who have handled them at sea and in port.
Behind the commodities desk
Sillara Agri Tech
A business-to-business procurement platform that buys every day for restaurants and commercial kitchens in Colombo, from a network of Sri Lankan farmers, suppliers and manufacturers. That network is where our sourcing starts.
Where we are
109, Havelock Road, Colombo 05, Sri Lanka
Monday to Friday, 09:00–18:00 Colombo time (UTC+5:30).