Sri Lanka, March 13 -- The widening conflict in the Gulf which is having multiple impacts on Sri Lanka is now hampering the delivery of coal shipments required for power generation at the moment, an official said yesterday.

The Sri Lankan authorities have placed orders for the delivery of 25 shipments of coal for the generation of power at the Norochcholai Lakvijaya plant. A dozen of shipments that ran into controversy over their inferior quality (low calorific value ) has been delivered .

An official who is familiar with the process told Daily Mirror that the supplier had asked for additional time for the completion of delivery of shipments because of disruption to global navigation after the Middle East crisis erupted.

"They had anyw...