The Hindu Business Line : Monday, March 10, 2003

Air service bilaterals: Are there more seats than fliers?
HAS the Government not been allowing foreign airlines into the country or is it that foreign airlines are not fully utilising the bilateral rights which allow them to transport passengers from one country to another? Official sources maintain ... More

Take-off time for budget airlines
THE concept of low-cost regional airlines, tried and tested successfully in several developed countries, is perhaps India's best bet. There are tremendous opportunities for the growth of low-cost regional airlines in this country and the time is ... More

IATA opposes Heathrow charges
Heathrow charge increases are unacceptable to airlines, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the body representing the majority of the airlines of the world. The IATA's sharp reaction comes in the wake of the UK ... More

Jet carries 6 m passengers in single fiscal
JET Airways for the first time in its decade-long existence has carried six million revenue passengers in a single financial year. For the month ofMarch, the airline has registered a cumulative load factor of 69 per cent overall and 34 per ... More

SHIPPING

Wharfage for SBM — CoPT, KRL at loggerheads
FIRST it was location. Now it is wharfage. The tussle between the Cochin Port Trust (CoPT) and Kochi Refineries Limited (KRL) over the proposed single buoy mooring (SBM) project will never stop. Or so it seems. Fortunately the location issue has ... More

Vizag sails ahead, yet again
THE Visakhapatnam port is set to emerge the No 1 among all the major ports this year too, which makes it thrice in a row, and the port authorities are striving to scale greater heights by breaking the Kandla port record by the end of this ... More

Problems in moving cargo to Paradip port
IT IS surprising but true that more than 1.5 million tonnes of iron ore exports through Paradip port are transported by road to the port for shipment. In the process, a costly fuel is burnt to carry a cheap mineral. It is not difficult to ... More

RAILWAYS

Electrical Multiple Unit shed to be ready by June
THE Rs15-crore Electrical Multiple Unit (EMU) Car Shed of Railways, being developed at Moula Ali near Hyderabad, is slated to be completed by the end of June this year, according to the Union Minister of State for Railways, Mr Bandaru ... More

Ships in Ports

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