The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, April 11, 2002

Transit visa for Air France passengers
PASSENGERS on Air France, who are planning to transit the airline's hub in Paris, will have to get an airport transit visa. Some passengers are, however, exempt from this requirement. Passengers holding Schengen visa, or the US visa in any of ... More

Ugadi menu for IA passengers
INDIAN Airlines (IA), as part of food celebrations held on important days in the Southern States, will focus on Andhra food on Ugadi Day (April 13) with a view to popularising it among the non-Telugu passengers aboard its flights. Ugadi heralds ... More

Jet Airways new facility
JET Airways, one of the leading private airlines, has introduced a `kerb side' checking in facility for passengers flying by its services in major metro cities, including Bangalore. The facility, which enables a passenger to collect the ... More

Roy Paul part-time chief of Air India
THE Government has appointed the Secretary Civil Aviation, Mr K. Roy Paul, as the part-time Chairman of Air India (AI). Mr Roy replaces the previous Secretary Civil Aviation, Mr A.H. Jung, who retired from Government service ... More

Emirates plans addl service

INFRASTRUCTURE

More road links to Haldia on anvil
Malaysia is believed to have shown interest also in constructing a road between Kolkata and Kulpi where a new port is proposed to be developed in the joint sector. More

SHIPPING

GE Shipping forms joint venture to lease copters
GREAT Eastern Shipping Company Ltd (GE Shipping) on Wednesday announced a joint venture to carry out offshore air logistics business. The joint venture in the main between GE Shipping, U.B. Air Private Ltd and Qatar General Petroleum ... More

LNG Laxmi completes four voyages to France
LNG Laxmi, India's first LNG carrier part-owned by Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), has completed four voyages to France carrying LNG cargo sold by Oman LNG, a company in which the Oman Government holds 51 per cent stake. LNG Laxmi, a ... More

Cochin port not keen on KRL buoy project
TO find a permanent solution for the ongoing controversy with regard to the construction of a single buoy mooring (SBM) in mid-sea, Kochi Refineries Ltd has approached the Cochin Port Trust with a proposal for setting up the SBM on BOOT basis. ... More

ROADWAYS

Vehicles with LPG kits to be checked
QUITE a large number of vehicles are operating with LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) as auto fuel now, blissfully unaware that the State Transport Department would soon catch them on the run. The department recently issued orders to all the ... More

Electric autos to be launched in Bangalore
BANGALORE could soon have noise-free vehicles in the place of the polluting menaces that go by the name of autorickshaws. Mahindra Eco Mobiles Ltd is planning to launch `Bijlee', its battery-operated, 10-seater electric auto in Bangalore as soon ... More

`Plastic' road laid at varsity campus
AN experimental one-km stretch of a `plastic' road has been laid in the Bangalore University campus that could not only offer a way out to the plastic disposal problem but also result in better roads. K.K. Polyflex Ltd, a Bangalore-based ... More

Karnataka: LPG kits not certified

Ships in Ports

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