Oct 14, Colombo: Sri Lanka and India will sign a memorandum of Agreement (Mou) to resume the ferry service between Sri Lanka's Thalaimannar of the northwestern coast and Rameswaram in South India.

The Director of Merchant Ships Section of Sri Lanka Ministry of Ports and Aviation Shantha Weerakoon told media that the discussions are underway to restart the service, disrupted by Sri Lanka's separatist war, with the Indian Secretary of Naval Affairs Mohan Das who is now on a tour in Sri Lanka.

A Memorandum of Understanding is expected to be signed in this regard with India soon, he said.

Passenger transport between India and Sri Lanka totally depend on airlines now despite the two countries are separated by only a narrow strip of 20 km of the Palk Strait of Indian Ocean.