The Hindu Business Line : Monday, June 17, 2002

Second AI flight on Dubai-Bangalore sector
AIR India launched its second direct flight from Dubai to Bangalore on Sunday, with plans to add a third one in September. The increase in frequency on the Dubai-Bangalore route is based on decisions taken by the airline following a recent ... More

More Emirates flights from Chennai, Mumbai
THE Dubai-based Emirates Airlines is to operate two additional flights from Chennai on June 18 and 20 besides operating an additional flight from Mumbai on June 17 to provide more air seats to international travellers wanting to leave India. ... More

Emirates to expand network in India
INDIA has become the second biggest traffic destination after the UK for Emirates, the wholly owned airline of the Dubai Government, and the airline is now planning to build further on its network by adding two new destinations - Kochi and ... More

SHIPPING

Export route to Russia
The route for Indian exports to Russia/Baltic states and other CIS countries and Central Asian Republics through Iran — currently being finalised by the expert groups of India, Iran and Russia — will be short and, hence, ... More

ChPT rate revision plan: Face-off with port users
THE Chennai Port Trust (ChPT) recently submitted a comprehensive proposal for general revision of the Scale of Rates 2002 to the Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP). The revision sought included a 110 per cent increase in handling and storage ... More

Essar scraps oil carrier `Nandshivachand'
THE Essar Shipping Ltd-owned 65,000 dead weight tonne (dwt) oil, bulk and ore (OBO) carrier `Nandshivachand', at the centre of a controversy relating to the coastal crude movement contract of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has been ... More

CoPT's plans to boost productivity
THE problems facing the shipping community in Kochi are now receiving a good deal of attention from the Cochin Port authorities. A series of measures aimed at improving the productivity of the Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal have been ... More

Govt keen on trimming cost at major ports
A MAJOR cost reduction exercise has been initiated in all the 12 major ports in the country. The exercise would involve active participation from the port users and the chambers of commerce and industry. ``I will have a series of interactions ... More

Port workers to boycott tankers with KRL crude
Once the oil and oil products cargoes are shifted from the port, CPT stands to lose Rs 40-50 crore. More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

APM dismantling: Problems in the pipeline
THE dismantling of the administered pricing mechanism (APM) has posed new challenges to pipeline transportation of crude and petroleum products. Earlier, a pipeline project was viewed as a paying proposition thanks to government support. Not any ... More

ROADWAYS

Kerala: Stir planned against bridge toll fee
THE Ernakulam District Committee of Yuva Jana Vedi has decided to launch an agitation against the imposition of users' fee for the new Mattanchery bridge. A press release said that the agreement signed between Kochi Corporation, GCDA and the ... More

Marthandavarma bridge
The Marthandavarma bridge across the Periyar river on NH-47 near Aluva has been newly constructed at a cost of Rs 7.5 crore. With a width of 7.5 metres, it does not seem to reduce the congestion at this part of the highway. The bridge was ... More

Ships in Ports

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