The Hindu Business Line : Monday, March 22, 2004

SHIPPING
Govt throws lifeline to shippers
The facilitation cell to be set up by the Shipping Ministry will examine the various problems faced by exporters and importers who use shipping services and try to resolve them as best as it can. More

`SICCI can offer low-cost international maritime arbitration'
THE Southern India Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) plans to market its maritime arbitration services. The chamber feels it has the resources to mediate in shipping-related disputes. For the disputants it would work out far cheaper to ... More

BBCD acquisition policy to be recast
A panel set up by the Shipping Ministry will recast the policy on the Bare-Boat-Charter-cum-Demise form of ship acquisitions so that loopholes in this innovative method of financing fleet additions are plugged. More

Has Cochin missed the box-ship?
THERE has never been a more favourable time for the Cochin Port Trust to implement the proposed container transhipment project but the work has to be taken up in right earnest without further delay, according to Dr Jose ... More

Things of the past
These country boats have been the mainline suppliers of provisions and daily necessities to the islands surrounding the Ernakulam mainland. With the completion of the Goshree bridges, these boats will turn obsolete, and with them end an era of ... More

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