The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, August 20, 2002

Metro airports privatisation to be over by May next
THE Ministry of Civil Aviation has announced that the process of privatisation of the airports in the four metro cities, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, will be completed by May 2003. Addressing an interactive meeting organised by the ... More

IA to sell `Lakshmi House' plot
CHENNAI: Indian Airlines has invited bids for the sale of its property `Lakshmi House', a vacant plot comprising of 26.60 grounds on Anna Salai in Teynampet, Chennai. The reserve price for this `L' shaped plot is Rs 19 crore, based on ... More

BIA to seek experts' help

SHIPPING

ChPT hands over extended terminal to Chennai Container
THE Chennai Port Trust (ChPT) today handed over the additional 285 metre of newly built container berth to Chennai Container Terminal Ltd (CCTL), the private operator managing the Chennai port's container terminal. The Union Minister of State for ... More

JNPT calls bids for marine chemical terminal project
The applicant must have to its credit the requisite experience in the operation and management of chemical terminals with an annual average throughput of not less than two m.t. of liquid cargo. In case of LNG, the stipulation is 1.5 m.t. More

Kakinada-Marakkanam to be national waterway
THE Centre is likely to announce Kakinada-Marakkanam as the fourth national waterway (NW) in the Tenth Plan. It had announced three NWs in the Third Plan and planned to announce three more in the Tenth Plan, the Union Minister of State for ... More

NMPT achieves record handling
THE New Mangalore Port handled a record quantity of 6,694 tonnes of granite on August 16, the highest quantity of granite blocks exported through the port in a day. The earlier record was 3,694 tonnes handled on January 30, 2002. According to a ... More

New IOC chartering policy hits Kandla port
INDIAN Oil Corporation (IOC), as per its streamlined policy on importing petroleum products in the post-APM (administered pricing mechanism) era, has shifted the base of its operations from the erstwhile favoured destinations of Gulf of Kutch and ... More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Bonded trucking of air cargo from Tirupur
The launch of the direct air cargo from Tirupur ICD would facilitate cutting down the cargo transit delay for shippers who hitherto moved their bulk export cargo to the gateway ports of either Mumbai or Channai by road. More

RAILWAYS

New train from Chennai to Vijayawada
JANA Shatabdi Express, a superfast train, will be introduced between Chennai and Vijayawada on August 26, according to the Union Minister of State for Railways, Mr Bandaru Dattatreya. The train, which travels at a maximum speed of 110 km per ... More

Passengers' forum sues Railways
THE Andhra Pradesh Railway Passengers' Association has filed a writ petition in the Andhra Pradesh High Court against the Railways on charges of partiality and discrimination. Mr S.S. Krishnaji, president of the association, in his petition ... More

Expert panel sought on Rly zone row
AN all-party meeting convened by the West Bengal Government on the Eastern Railway bifurcation issue on Monday has demanded the setting up of a panel of experts to review the matter. The BJP stayed away from the meeting, which was attended by ... More

ROADWAYS

Motor transport operators' dharna today
MEMBERS of the All-India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) will sit on a protest `dharna' on Tuesday at Jantar Mantar here from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. to press a five-point charter of demand for transport operators across the country. The demands ... More

Bumpy ride for trailers to Chennai port
THE poor approach road to the Chennai port is causing problems to the container-laden trailers shuttling in and out of the harbour. Unlike other major ports, including Tuticorin, where there are wide approach roads to the port, the situation in ... More

Ships in Ports

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