The Hindu Business Line : Friday, March 28, 2003

Boeing, Airbus extend deadline for IA price bids
THE aircraft manufacturers — Boeing and Airbus — have given Indian Airlines (IA) a six-month extension on the prices quoted for its 43-aircraft deal. There are also indications that the crucial pre-Public Investment Board (PIB) ... More

IA hopes to cut operating loss
The airlines plans to make it mandatory for senior citizens to purchase their tickets a week in advance and buy a round trip ticket to avail of the senior citizen discount. More

Kuwait Air to suspend Chennai flights for 2 weeks
KUWAIT Airways on Thursday announced that it will suspend flights to Chennai for two weeks from March 29. "Flights to Chennai will be suspended for two weeks. Besides, we will curtail operations to Delhi and only operate one flight a week from ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

RailTel cable network to cover 150 cities
RAILTEL Corporation of India Ltd, a PSU under the Railway Ministry, will lay 15,000-route km of optical fibre cable network during 2003-04 connecting 150 cities and 1,500 stations. A Railway Ministry statement said that the work on laying OFC ... More

SHIPPING

GE Shipping acquires Panamax product carrier
GE Shipping on Thursday took delivery of a 66,183-dwt product carrier built at Hyundai Heavy Industries, South Korea, in 1986. The Panamax product carrier,`Jag Arpan', is classed with Lloyd's Register. According to the company, the vessel ... More

Kochi port, KRL near pact on SBM wharfage rate
THE Kochi port and Kochi Refineries Ltd (KRL) have reached an understanding on the wharfage rates to be levied by the port from the proposed single buoy mooring (SBM) of the refinery. Informed sources said that the two parties had almost ... More

Railways urged to expand Haldia-Panskura line capacity
THE Haldia dock authorities have drawn the attention of the Railways to the limited capacity of the 60-km long Haldia-Panskura railway link, pleading for augmentation of the capacity immediately. ``Unless the work on the capacity augmentation ... More

RAILWAYS

Pvt sector wagon makers queue up for Braithwaite
NEARLY all the private sector wagon manufacturers have queued up to acquire a 60 per cent equity share in the engineering outfit Braithwaite Company Ltd (BCL), whose disinvestment process was put on the block recently. Company sources said ... More

Hassan-Mangalore train services

ROADWAYS

Steering ahead
Miziria, the first ever woman driver of KSRTC, in the driver's seat of a non-stop transport bus plying between Ernakulam and Thrissur. She covers the 80-km distance in 1 hour and 35 minutes. ... More

Karnataka Transport Dept scheme for pass holders

Ships in Ports

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