Another award for LHI

LHI won the silver award in the category of Export of Business and Professionals Services - Large, for the second consecutive year at the 17th Annual National Chamber of Exporters (NCE) awards ceremony held at the Colombo Hilton recently. Last year LHI (Lanka Hydraulic Institute Ltd.) won the silver award for the first time in its history for its performance in the export of knowledge.

Team of representatives from LHI

The NCE awards recognises national contributions of local organisations in terms of export and their gain to the economy’s prosperity. LHI is the leader in the export of knowledge in consultancy services in the fields of coastal engineering, water resources and urban water. In employment LHI has a pool of specialist engineers in hydraulic engineering with both local and overseas training backed by an experienced and skilled support team.

The expertise within LHI has transformed the company from a local organisation to a company working internationally, according to a press release issued by the company.

With the majority of its turnover being generated by overseas projects, LHI is focused on securing more foreign projects. LHI already having worked on projects ranging from Algeria to South Korea and also in India and the Maldives Islands is equipped with a wide array of experience under its belt. LHI is currently working on India’s Hooghly Estuary (Kolkata harbour) project, which is expected to continue till 2010. Local projects LHI is working on presently is the Dikkowita fishery harbour which will be the largest fishery harbour as well as the first dedicated deep sea harbour in the island once completed.

LHI made a record breaking turnover last financial year of Rs. 136 million, a turnover the company experienced for the first time in history.