The Hindu Business Line : Friday, October 25, 2002

4th Chennai-Mumbai IA flight from Oct 27
INDIAN Airlines will reintroduce the fourth daily flight between Chennai and Mumbai as part of its winter schedule that comes into effect from October 27. The service, IC 174, will operate with A300 aircraft leaving Chennai at 6 p.m. Flight IC ... More

`Open sky' policy may dampen tourism
WHAT one arm of the Government proposes, the other disposes. This exercise in futility seems to be coming true again, with the Ministry of Tourism expressing unhappiness over the manner in which the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) plans to ... More

IA announces winter schedule
INDIAN Airlines has announced its winter schedule which comes into effect from October 27. Under it, Tirupati will have three flights a week instead of two from Hyderabad and Mumbai will have four flights a day instead of three. The revised ... More

SHIPPING

Major ports' throughput meets Ministry H1 target
DESPITE a dip in the flow of traffic to the 13 major ports in the country during the last two months, the combined throughput of the ports during the first-half of the current fiscal meets the target set by the Ministry of Shipping. According ... More

Rs 5,000-cr plan to develop Kerala ports
THE Kerala Government has drawn up a Rs 5,000-crore plan for the development of seven minor ports in the State with private participation. The feasibility reports on some of the ports have already been prepared by the international consultancy ... More

SAIL coal import through Paradip surges
In fact, the jump in the coking coal traffic has been the single largest factor contributing to the rise in the port's throughput in the first half when the total import at 9.08 lakh tonnes represented a whopping 44 per cent improvement over the 6.3 lakh tonnes in the same period of the previous year. More

IDFC appointed consultant for Vallarpadam
KOCHI Port Trust has hired Infrastructure Development Finance Company Ltd (IDFC) as consultants for the proposed Vallarpadam box terminal project. IDFC would advise the port trust on several aspects of the project, including framing of the bid ... More

NMPT cargo traffic up 25.2 pc in H1
The increase in traffic is said to have been primarily due to increased handling of POL crude and POL products, iron ore/pellets, granite blocks and containerised cargo. More

GENERAL INSURANCE

IRDA strong-arm tactics pay off — Insurers accepting third-party liability cover
THE flexing of muscles by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) is finally showing results that should bring cheer back on the faces of transporters. IRDA has now claimed that its threat of reprisal has resulted in general ... More

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