The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Jet Airways second Mumbai-London service on July 10
The air space between Mumbai and London is to get more crowded with Jet Airways set to launch its second daily non-stop flight on the Mumbai-London sector on July 10. Official sources told Business Line that the flight would leave ... More

Paramount plans to buy 20 more aircraft
Looking at inducting Embraer 195 aircraft More

SHIPPING

Gati to buy Rs 60-cr container vessel
Direct service between Chennai and Krabi or Phuket planned More

CPT to invite global EoI to appoint consultants
Designing a world-class cruise terminal More

KDS seeks to lure box traffic from North
In its desperate bid to attract containerised traffic to and from North India, the authorities of Kolkata Dock System (KDS), which is one of the two dock systems of Kolkata port the other being Haldia dock, have urged Container Corporation of ... More

Chennai port sets new record
On March 13, about 40,300 tonnes of iron ore lumps were loaded on to the vessel Ince Inebolu at Jawahar Dock II by manual operation. This surpasses the previous record of 38,900 tonnes loaded onto the vessel Sea Venus in August last ... More

Record coking coal discharge at Vizag
A record 29,505 tonnes of coking coal was discharged from the vessel, MV Red Orchid, with the use of two floating cranes at Visakhapatnam port on Saturday. The previous best was 29,390 tonnes achieved on January 31. The cargo was ... More

Beach surgery
A DREDGER of the Dredging Corporation of India pumping sand through a 250-metre pipe while carrying out the beach nourishment project of the Visakhapatnam Port Trust close in the vicinity of the Ramakrishna Beach. A small sandstrip caused by the ... More

GENERAL INSURANCE

Third-party motor cover can't be denied: IRDA
The regulator warns insurers of necessary action if complaints are received from the public with evidence. More

MGL sponsors accident cover
Mahanagar Gas Ltd (MGL) has sponsored a group personal accident cover for over 2.25 lakh drivers operating CNG- driven taxi and auto rickshaws within MGL's area of operation. The cover will be offered by ICICI Lombard General ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS