Sri Lanka occupies a uniquely strategic position in global commerce, with over 60,000 ships and 40,000 aircraft transiting its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) annually through the SLiMDOE Corridor—a 500- nautical-mile ocean-air passage south of the island that carries 40% of world trade.

In essence, SLiMDOE transforms Sri Lanka’s geographic advantage into a sustainable economic asset—aligning environmental responsibility with national prosperity.

Sri Lanka occupies a uniquely strategic position in global commerce, with over 60,000 ships and 40,000 aircraft transiting its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) annually through the SLiMDOE Corridor—a 500- nautical-mile ocean-air passage south of the island that carries 40% of world trade.

SLiMDOE is an acronym given to Sri Lanka’s Multi-billion Dollar Ocean air Expressway depicted in the cover picture that enables 60,000 ships carrying 40% of world trade to take a shortcut saving 400 nautical miles of seamless passage that brushes past Dondra Head in the southern tip of Sri Lanka allowing global commerce to save US $ 12 Billion annually, without giving any revenue to Sri Lanka. 

Mr. Ranjith Wickramasinghe, a Sri Lankan professional with many years of expatriate experience and now firmly back in Sri Lanka, is using his knowledge to propose an innovative and creative strategy to assist Sri Lanka and its people in this time of economic difficulty.

Sri Lanka's SLiMDOE Initiative: From Concept to Call-to-Action

During the last two decades, Sri Lanka has enabled 40% of the world’s maritime trade and thousands of commercial flights to pass through its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) — a shortcut we now define as SLiMDOE: Sri Lanka’s Multi-billion Dollar Ocean-Air Expressway.