John Keells Holdings is the Sri Lanka's Leading Conglomerate in terms of market capitalization,

listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange. JKH Group manage the largest number ofHOTEL ROOMS
in Sri Lanka, own the country's largest privately-owned transportation business and hold leading
positions in Sri Lanka's key industries: tea, food and beverage manufacture and distribution,
logistics, real estate, banking and information technology.
he rest of the country, the Property Group is one of the largest private sector proprietors of real
estate in Sri Lanka. As the controlling shareholder of Asian Hotels and Properties PLC the owners
and promoters of 'Crescat City' which houses theFIVE STAR HOTEL 'Cinnamon Grand', the upmarket shopping mall 'The Crescat Boulevard', the 30-storey luxury apartment complex 'The
Monarch', the 35-storey luxury apartment complex, 'The Emperor' and the 'Angsana City Club &
Spa', the Property Development arm concentrates primarily on the development and sale of
residential apartments. The Property Management arm of the group concentrates on the operations
of the Crescat Boulevard and the management of the office sites within the city.
The Property Group has launched a new condominium project known as "On Three 20" which
consists of 475 apartments in the heart of the city of Colombo. Reservations for apartments units are
currently being accepted and construction is scheduled to start in April 2011.
the Sector Group at present operates in three strategic business units - Ports & Shipping, Integrated
Logistics and Airline & Aviation services - offering an array of transportation and related services in
Sri Lanka and the region. Businesses in the Sector Group include the operation of Sri Lanka's first
private sector terminal operator, South Asia Gateway Terminals, in consortium with AP Moller
Terminals; Lanka Marine Services, primary supplier of marine bunker fuels and lubricants in Sri
Lanka; and joint ventures/associations with leading transportation multinationals such as Maersk
Line, DHL (Deutsche Post World Net), American Express, the Keppel Group and MISC, in the areas
of Shipping, Air Express, Travel, Supply Chain Management and Third Party Logistics including
Warehousing and Haulage.

Other businesses include a JV that operates Cinnamon Air, a domestic air taxi service using
amphibious and wheeled aircraft and offering scheduled, daily flights between Colombos
International Airport and key inland locations, International Freight Forwarding and NVOCC
Operations in JV with the Norbert Dentressangle Group of France and Airline representation of
global carriers such as American Airlines, Jet Airways, Garuda Indonesia, Gulf Air, Air Mauritius and
Asiana Airlines.

Transportation engineering or transport engineering is the application of technology and

scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for any
mode of transportation in order to provide for the safe, efficient, rapid, comfortable, convenient,
economical, and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods (transport). It is a subdiscipline of civil engineering [1] and of industrial engineering. Transportation engineering is a major
component of the civil engineering and mechanical engineering disciplines, according to
specialisation of academic courses and main competences of the involved territory.