The Hindu Business Line : Monday, August 08, 2005

AI may name financial advisor for IPO today
The airline had in July shortlisted six merchant bankers, namely, DSP Merrill Lynch, JM Morgan Stanley, Kotak Investment Banking, SBI Capital Markets, HSBC, Enam Financial Consultants, and Citibank, for this purpose. The IPO is expected to ... More

Indian Airlines to go on e-ticket mode
SOON it is going to be paperless travel with Indian Airlines. The airline recently signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with a European company for e-ticketing on its entire network, covering 57 destinations within the ... More

Airlines still working out losses due to Mumbai rains
AIRLINE companies in the city are still working out the losses incurred on account of the disruption in operations during the recent rains and the resultant flooding. Airline operations were affected for almost a week in the aftermath of the ... More

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Supply chain management — UPS looks at radio frequency ID package
GLOBAL PACKAGE delivery giant UPS is working to standardise Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies to come up with new supply chain management (SCM) solutions for its customers at the global level. RFID in ... More

SHIPPING

KRL's Single Point Mooring project — First in pipeline for Puthuvypeen
THE RS 623-CRORE Single Point Mooring (SPM) project of Kochi Refineries Limited (KRL) is expected to take off this month when the work contract is awarded for the construction of the site office and warehouse at ... More

Shippers' armada to take on shipping lines
THE ASSOCIATION of Shippers Councils of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka (ASCOBIPS) recently celebrated its silver jubilee in Karachi. Established in 1980 by the shippers councils of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh ... More

Two views on LNG shipping

Karachi shipyard privatisation

World's largest container ship

Refrigerated cargo trades cool

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

EADS profits up

RAILWAYS

Katra-Laole line in J&K — Konkan Railway faces uphill task
Laying of a 90-km rail line between Katra and Laole in J&K is a gargantuan task and Konkan Railway Corporation will have to finish it. More

Level playing field for private players — Railways likely to withdraw sops to Concor
THE Railway Ministry is planning to withdraw some benefits that it extends to the Container Corporation of India (Concor) in the backdrop of opening up the containerised operations to the private sector. "Since we have to provide a level ... More

`Centre must certify Konkan sky bus as urban transport system'
THE Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has urged the Union Government to validate skybus, which was developed by the Konkan Railway Corporation (KRC), as an urban transport mode. In a letter to the Union Urban Development Minister, ... More

Ships in Ports

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