The Hindu Business Line : Monday, November 10, 2003

Changing contours of air sector — Where there is no frill, there's a way!
If the poor economics of trans-Atlantic travel post 9/11 was what grounded the Concordes for good, similar circumstances made Honeywell International, a major player in the airline space, revise all its strategic programmes. For the Thiruvananthapura m-based IBS, specialising in travel, transportation and logistics, Honeywell's requirement for niche products for flight operations proved a perfect fit. More

Airport Initiatives: For landing in comfort
INDIA may not boast of a world-class facility like a Changi of Singapore or Schipol of Amsterdam, but the authorities are taking initiatives to ensure that the air traveller has a more pleasant experience at the ... More

Appointment of financial consultants — ABN-Amro, E&Y, KPMG in shortlist for airport project
THE Government is to announce the name of the financial consultant who is to assist in the plans to modernise the airports in Delhi and Mumbai on November 14 after the four-member empowered Group of Ministers (GoM) approves it. This decision ... More

New services from Jet Air from December
BEGINNING December 1, Jet Airways will have daily flights on the Kolkata-Agartala-Kolkata sector. The capital of Tripura will be the airline's 41st destination in the country and the seventh in the eastern and north-eastern region. On this ... More

SHIPPING

Draft outline of Sagar Mala project — Forging strong links in the transport chain
The draft outline on the Sagar Mala project gives definite shape to a great idea by adopting a holistic approach aimed at developing an integrated transport system that takes the pressure off road and rail. More

Antony plea to PM on Vallarpadam project
The memorandum has also made a plea to consider upgrading the College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, to an IIT. More

Kochi port: Building box of international hub
Kochi port has started the process of reinventing itself to emerge as the hub port in the region. More

RAILWAYS

`Delay in pvt sector entry into rail transport hurting exporters hard'
IF exporters are sore over the appreciating rupee and high cost of dollar credit, the continued delay in putting in place measures for private sector involvement in the movement of containers by rail for export and import is further exasperating ... More

ROADWAYS

Phase II of highways project awaits Cabinet panel nod
THE second phase of the Prime Minister's National Highways Development Project comprising 7,300 km of north-south and east-west corridors will be taken up by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs shortly for approval. Highway projects ... More

Ships in Ports

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