The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, June 18, 2002

AI mulls maintenance check facility at Kochi
AIR India (AI) is planning to set up a maintenance check facility and a hangar at Kochi International Airport located in nearby Nedumbassery in the near future. Speaking to Business Line, Mr Babu C. Rajeev, Managing Director, Cochin ... More

Export cargo X-ray scan date extended
THE Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) in the Ministry of Civil Aviation has extended the deadline for compulsory X-ray scanning of all export cargo booked through international airports. BCAS had issued an order early this year asking ... More

Sky Team to expand code-sharing
THE global airline alliance, Sky Team, which partners Air France, Alitalia and Delta Airlines has decided to expand code-share relationship by offering services from Delhi and Mumbai to the US, Paris and Milan. In a statement, the global ... More

SHIPPING

Denial of berth on recast board -- Kandla port workers' strike on June 27
THE workers have served a notice to go on a day-long strike at Kandla port on June 27 protesting the Union Government's failure to nominate two labour representatives on the Board of Trustees, which was reconstituted recently. ``We will ... More

Indfex II to provide link with N. China
THE Indfex (India-Far East Express) consortium on Sunday launched the Indfex II service, a direct mainline (large vessels plying long distances) container service between Chennai and the Northern Chinese ports. In June last year, the same ... More

RAILWAYS

Kerala: Electric train to start running from Onam
KERALA will soon have its first Mainline Electrical Multiple Unit train which will be operated between Palakkad and Erode. The train will be introduced from August 17 as an Onam gift to the people of the State, the Union Minister of State for ... More

New rly zone plan causes concern
IS the Railway Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, planning to revive the old proposal (mooted by Mr Ram Vilas Paswan during his tenure but on which not much progress was made) for the creation of new zonal railways? Reports have it that Mr Nitish Kumar ... More

ROADWAYS

For cleaner Hyderabad -- 15-plus vehicles to be phased out
After the drive of the Delhi Government to bring stiff norms for vehicles to check the growing pollution menace in the Capital, Hyderabad would now become the second city in the country to go in for such measures. More

Web site on highways launched -- New road policy on cards
THE Tamil Nadu Government will soon launch a highways development programme and formulate a new road policy. It has launched a new Web site, tnhighways.org, highlighting the efforts of the highways department in improving road infrastructure, ... More

Action plan to tackle traffic congestion in Bangalore
Realising the urgency to improve the situation, the Bangalore city traffic police, in collaboration with the Transport Advisory Forum, have identified the problem areas and initiated necessary follow-up action on a pilot basis. More

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