Mr. Ananda S Premachandra who has over four decades of experience in the maritime field joined the Sri Lanka Ports Authority as a Management trainee and held various management positions ending his career there as the Managing Director in 2021. During this period he also worked for few years as the Terminal coordinator at Port of Fujairah and as the head of Container operations department of West ports of Malaysia.

He Joined CMA CGM SA and its Terminal operating companies as the Regional manager (ports and Terminals -Asia ) in 2002 and worked for 13 years based in Malaysia India and South Korea. During this period he was instrumental in negotiating Terminal investments, master planning of port and terminal facilities, designing Terminals and optimizing terminal designs, handling large scale terminal equipment and systems procurements, commissioning of terminal operations including automated facilities advising terminals on improving performance and profitability in various countries where the shipping company had strategic interests.

In his current role as an International port consultant Mr .Premachandra provides consultancy services to Adani International port holdings for CWIT project in port of Colombo and Tanzania East Africa Gateway Terminal project in Dar Es Salam Tanzania. He functions as the senior Advisor planning for the Joint steering committee appointed by Tanzania Ports Authority that governs the Terminal refurbishment and capacity expansion project. He is a registered consultant at the ADB as well.