The Hindu Business Line : Monday, October 28, 2002

Regional airline group to meet
THE Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA), a regional group of 17 commercial airlines, is holding the 46th Assembly of Presidents of major Asia Pacific-based airlines in the Philippines in mid-November to discuss the state of the industry ... More

SHIPPING

Flagging morale of FoC crews
WHEN m.v. Radiant Vega docked at the Vizag port to load iron ore for Ispat Industries earlier this month, the owners of the vessel had no inkling of the problems they would have to encounter in the loading operations. The loading was ... More

RAILWAYS

Integrating railways coach by coach
THE construction of the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) started in March 1952, with the first machine being commissioned on January 20, 1955, by the then Minister of Railways, Lal Bahadur Sastri. Production at the factory started in the Shell ... More

Eastern Railway post-bifurcation — Exploring new freight areas
Faced with a loss of about 50 million tones of freight traffic post-bifurcation, Eastern Railway has to quickly effect cost cuts and look at new freight-earning options. But with three major workshops at Jamalpur (Bihar), Kanchrapara and Liluah (West Bengal), which have huge workforces, still in its fold, little can be achieved by way of cost reduction. And exploring new areas has its own problems. More

A peep into the Rail Museum
THE National Rail Museum, New Delhi, was opened in 1977. Subsequently, a policy decision was taken by the Railway Board to open Regional Rail Museum at Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata. The Minister for Railway, Mr Nitish Kumar inaugurated the first ... More

Towards a better tomorrow
THE first two quarters of the current year, ICF was able to win more projects from the Indian Railways. Other than the prestigious Jan Shatabdi project, ICF also won another prestigious project, the Palace-on-Wheels for the Maharashtra Tourism. ... More

For the masses
Jan Shatabdi provides premium inter-city travel to the common man at an affordable, economical fare. Mr Nitish Kumar, the Minister for Railways announced the introduction of Jan Shatabdi service in his Railway Budget speech for 2002-03. ICF ... More

ROADWAYS

Truckers to strike work from November 15
The All-India Motor Transport Congress has submitted to the Government a charter of demands, many of which have remained unaddressed for long. Arguing that several factors, compounded by the general recession and volatile diesel prices, have pushed t ruck operators to the verge of bankruptcy, the AIMTC has warned it will go on strike next month. More

Ships in Ports

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