The Hindu Business Line : Monday, April 08, 2002

Relive Casablanca, courtesy Emirates
VIEWERS in India as those around the world must have seen the movie, Casablanca, and remembered the classic line `Play it again Sam.' The Indian traveller, now, has a chance of reliving that classic experience. In an effort to promote ... More

SHIPPING

Kakinada anchorage port -- Swimming against the tide?
THE Kakinada anchorage port appears to be on the brink of extinction, struggling for a new lease of life, as the Andhra Pradesh Government is reported to have decided to pull down the curtains on the century-old-port and divert the traditional ... More

For a maritime constituency
HOW to make the Merchant Navy popular? That appears to be the issue high on the Director-General Shipping's agenda. "The Navy is known to everyone, but the Merchant Navy does not have the same popular image," says Mr D. T. Joseph, DG, Shipping. ... More

Govt will not support SCI plan to acquire two new VLCCs
THE Union Government will not support a plan worked out by the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) to acquire two new very large crude carriers (VLCCs) of 300,000 deadweight tonnes (dwt) each, on the eve of privatisation, setting the Shipping ... More

Taking the sea route
Transportation cost, one of the main classical barriers of global trade, exhibits a continuous declining trend over time and is heavily relied and exogenously determined by technological developments. Intensity has increased on informal barriers ... More

Security at sea?
MERCHANT shipowners should constantly review security procedures and consider hiring security personnel during port calls to minimise the risk of terrorism, the North of England P&I Club has warned.Prompted by the events of September 11, the ... More

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS

Tyre dealers seek sales tax revision
The dealers of truck and car tyres in West Bengal are up in arms against the State government. They want downward revision of the sales tax and abolition of the surcharge on the sales tax with immediate effect. The dealers have also urged the ... More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

At the centre of world trade
In a world where heightened customer expectations, increased competitive pressures, multilateralism and emerging technologies have made a paradigm shift in the way global business is conducted, supply chain and logistic management has been turned ... More

A loaded ICD for Steel City
SPREAD over more than 10 acres, belonging largely to the Railways and partly to the Tata Iron and Steel Company, the inland container depot (ICD) at Jamshedpur — the Container Corporation of India's (Concor) fourth such outfit in eastern ... More

RAILWAYS

Diesel locos made with GM knowhow
INDIA has produced its own 4,000-HP diesel locos under technology transfer from General Motors, US. While the locos would initially cost around Rs 14 crore each, the cost of production was expected to be scaled down to around Rs 8 crore by ... More

ROADWAYS

Road to e-governance
In its bid to modernise the State's transport sector, the Orissa Government has decided to go for e-governance in transport administration and has, accordingly, appointed SBI Capital Markets as consultant to suggest ways to go about it. The ... More

Ships in Ports

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