LOGISTICS
INFRASTRUCTURE
Bangalore airport project awaiting `no-objection' from Defence Ministry
EVEN as it continues to wait for the Union Law Ministry's clearance for the draft concession agreement, the Bangalore International Airport project (BIAP) expects to settle a couple of "minor but vital" issues with the Ministry of ...
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SHIPPING
EVEN AS VALLARPADAM LANGUISHES ON DRAWING BOARD...
Why is Kerala Govt pushing for the Vizhinjam project?
THE Kerala Government seems to have ignored the suggestions made by the Union Shipping Ministry favouring the Rs 2,000-crore Vallarpadam Container Transhipment Terminal project, by running an advertisement calling ...
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Move to allow IOC to choose shipping line Windfall in offing for SCI
The Government's move to grant freedom to IOC to make its own shipping arrangements will be a bombshell for the domestic private shipping companies. In the new set-up, only SCI will benefit from the Government's purchase price preference policy while under the existing Transchart system, Indian flag vessels will get preference irrespective of whether it is a public or private company.
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New Mangalore Port likely to get LNG terminal
THE New Mangalore Port is likely to get an LNG terminal with a storage capacity of 300 million tonnes per annum. Addressing participants at a round table on "Investment opportunities in coastal Karnataka - Public-private partnership", ...
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INTERVIEW
`We are gearing up for competition'
Mr Subrat Tripathy, an officer of the Indian Railway Traffic Service (1988 batch), was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Paradip Port Trust in December 2002 and has been virtually acting as the Chairman of the port since April 2003 when the ...
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RAILWAYS
Deccan Odyssey targets Jain, Buddhist tourists
THE Prime Minister is set to flag off a new tourist train, the `Deccan Odyssey', in Mumbai on Friday at a time when the occupancy of the country's best-known luxury train, the `Palace on Wheels', is just about recovering, after having touched a ...
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ROADWAYS
Awareness programme on road safety, ecology in Bangalore
LAST month, a festive Bangalore Habba lit up the city's nooks and parks. Guess what a large band of the city's theatre and art glitterati will be up to, starting next week? Well, for a whole month from January 14, they will each be driving ...
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