The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, November 19, 2002

Lufthansa plans 3 more flights to Chennai
THE German airline, Lufthansa, has announced that it will operate three additional weekly flights to Chennai from April 1, 2003. The additional flight, LH-759 will leave Chennai at 1.20 a.m. and arrive in Frankfurt at 7.35 a.m. In the return ... More

Marginal dip in Air India's market share
THERE has been a marginal decline in Air India's market share from 22.5 per cent during 1991 to 20.4 per cent during 2001, the Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, told the Lok Sabha today. "The decline in market share has ... More

Chef Kapoor to dish out IA fare
SANJEEV Kapoor, the chef of Khana Khazana fame, is to be the brand ambassador of Indian Airlines' catering. He will also plan the menus for the airline's in-flight service, according to an airline circular. The circular states that the ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Fishing harbour plan for Mangalore
MANGALORE: The Karnataka Government is learnt to be in the process of initiating a proposal for construction of a fishing harbour near Mangalore. In a letter to the Union Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Ajit Singh, the Kanara Chamber of ... More

SHIPPING

Offer on Greenfield okay with Shipping Minister — SCI set to get $11m for stake
THE Union Shipping Minister, Mr Vedprakash Goyal, has lent his support to the offer made by Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and the Government of Sultanate of Oman to buy out the 20 per cent equity held by Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) in the ... More

LCL's tie-up offers more links to Latam, Caribbean ports
INDIA'S trade with Latin American and the Caribbean countries is expected to receive a big boost following an agreement between Econocaribe Consolidators and India's LCL Group. Both Econocaribe and LCL Group are non-vessel operating common ... More

15 trucks exported to Myanmar through NMPT
WITH the New Mangalore Port's attempts to attract a diverse variety of cargo slowly beginning to bear fruit, 15 dumper trucks, manufactured by the Tatas in Pune, were exported to Myanmar through this port on November 17. According to a press ... More

RAILWAYS

South Western Rly zone by April
BANGALORE: The South Western Railway Zone will become operational by April next, according to the Union Minister of State for Railways, Mr Bandaru Dattatreya. The cost of the new zone has been put at Rs 77.49 crore and Rs 10.49 crore ... More

ROADWAYS

Jayalalithaa inaugurates new bus terminus in Chennai
THE new Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus commenced operations today with three buses being flagged off by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa. Built at a cost of Rs 103 crore, the terminus has a capacity to handle over 2,000 buses ... More

TN: Changes in norms for movement of vehicles
WITH the inauguration of the Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus at Koyambedu, the State Government has decided to regulate the movement of inter-State and city buses. The new traffic movement to be implemented on a pilot basis seeks to regulate the ... More

Karnataka truckers threaten stir
BANGALORE: Goods transport operators in Karnataka have threatened to launch an agitation if the Government prevents plying of transport and commercial vehicles that are more than 15 years old in Bangalore. The Bangalore City Lorry ... More

Strike threat by APSRTC union
HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation National Mazdoor Union has decided to serve a notice on the management on November 21 for launching a two-day strike in support of its demand for implementation of the ... More

Poster politics
Posters by supporters of the arch-rivals — DMK and AIADMK — laying claim to being responsible for setting up the Rs 103-crore bus terminal at Koyambedu. One poster greets the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, for ... More

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