The Hindu Business Line : Friday, May 10, 2002

AI floats tender for lease of Boeing aircraft
AIR INDIA (AI) has floated a tender to dry lease one or two Boeing 747-400 aircraft for a period of three to five years. Though Frankfurt is being cited as the sector from India that is likely to see deployment of these aircraft, finer details ... More

Airport lease drags over `world class' -- Technical consultants mulled
WHAT does "world class" exactly mean? The Civil Aviation Ministry, for one, is unsure although it has ambitions to make the international airports in the four metros "world-class" ones. In the absence of detailed specifications the Ministry's ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

GVK consortium bags expressway project
THE diversified GVK Industries Ltd has been mandated for a major Rs 729-crore expressway project which involves six-laning of the existing two lanes on the Jaipur-Kishangarh, a section of National Highway 8 in Rajasthan. The agreement for the ... More

SHIPPING

Indfex to link Chennai to China, far-eastern ports
THE first main line vessel from the Chennai port is expected to leave for East-bound destinations on June 15. The service will provide direct port calls to some of the northern Chinese ports from Chennai, the first time from the Indian east ... More

SCI panel against $33-m bridge loan to Greenfield
A SUB-COMMITTEE set up by the board of Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) is not in favour of providing a bridge loan of $33 million to the troubled Greenfield Shipping Company to help it manage the cash-crunch. The stage is thereby set for a ... More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

XPS Cargo into cold containers with Japan co
BANGALORE: XPS Cargo, the express cargo arm of TCI, has joined hands with Japanese majors, Mitsui and Yanmar, to foray into cold container business. XPS is likely to buy 50 diesel-powered containers by end-2003 for Rs 20 crore. The ... More

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