The Hindu Business Line : Monday, May 27, 2002

Air service talks with UK, Singapore in June
INDIA is to hold bilateral air services talks with Singapore and the United Kingdom (UK) in June this year. Official sources told Business Line that while the two-day talks with Singapore are to be held on June 6-7 in Singapore, the ... More

Air freight to take off in 2003
ACCORDING to a forecast report released by the International Air Transport Association, the air transport industry is set for a recovery in 2003. The report, covering 2003-2005, predicts that the freight volume worldwide is likely to rise more ... More

Award for Indian Airlines

SHIPPING

Productivity-linked rewards scheme: Workers oppose port-wise change
THERE won't be any free lunches anymore for the 85,000 strong workers at the 11 major ports in the country if the Government implements a revised productivity linked rewards (PLR) scheme on a port-wise basis, scrapping the earlier scheme which ... More

Good intentions, wrong ways
No doubt, IMF's intentions are well meaning. Shipping is not getting the priority it deserves and any effort in that direction is welcome. First of all, IMF itself does not have the clout that can be leveraged to achieve the objectives. This is not to undermine the IMF's efforts. The men who spent years at sea know the importance of seafaring and other maritime activities. More

Port privatisation: Running into rough weather?
PORTS in India handle about 92-95 per cent of foreign trade and play a vital role in the national economy. The Ministry of Surface Transport (MoST) announced the policy of privatisation in the port sector in 1992. According to studies carried out ... More

Equipment failure: Kochi port users all at sea
FREQUENT disruptions of gantry cranes and other equipment at the Kochi port causing detention of vessels in berths has become a matter of concern for the shipping community, especially the container operators. Detention of vessels is helping the ... More

Nalco to expand port facilities at Vizag
With Indian aluminium major, National Aluminium Company (Nalco), wrapping up its Damanjodi refinery expansion programme, it is now focussing on expanding its port facilities at Vizag to meet the increased demand for exports. As part of this ... More

Four in fray for Gangavaram project

RAILWAYS

No clear signal from BSNL, MTNL on stake offer: RailTel may have private partners
THE Railway Ministry is having a re-think on the appointment of an investment banker to work out both the quantum and premium on equity for RailTel to be offered to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL). It ... More

Secunderabad Rly division sets 33-mt freight target
THE Secunderabad division of the Indian Railways, which covers Andhra Pradesh, parts of Maharastra and Karnataka, has fixed a target of hauling 33 million tonnes of freight in the current fiscal, up from the 31.3 m.t. it did during 2001-02. The ... More

ROADWAYS

Look who's talking?
The Chennai City Traffic Police have thought of a novel way to spread the message of traffic safety — playing music through speakers at an important junction on the arterial Anna Salai, interspersed with messages on the need to obey traffic ... More

Laying roads with plastic waste

Ships in Ports

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