The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, September 03, 2003

No blanket open sky policy, says Rudy
RULING out the possibility of a blanket `open sky' policy, the Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Mr Rajiv Pratap Rudy, said the issue was basically related to commercial interests of a country. Addressing the stakeholders of the ... More

IA, Alliance Air reschedule flights
INDIAN Airlines and Alliance Air have rescheduled some of their flights between Tuesday and Friday due to air exercises to be held at the Chennai airport, according to an Indian Airlines release. The schedule is as follows: On Tuesday, Thursday ... More

Emirates SkyCargo to launch services to North America
Emirates SkyCargo is all set to start freight services to North America in September, offering its customers in the UAE, Gulf region and Indian subcontinent dedicated and much-needed cargo capacity to and from markets in the east coast of the US. ... More

SHIPPING

ICD rake traffic to Vizag terminal expected soon
WITH the railway connection to Visakhapatnam port's container terminal having been established and the adjacent stackyard completed, the rake movement of ICD (inland container depot) containers to and from the terminal is to start shortly. The ... More

Chennai floating dock to be auctioned
IN a bid to make a complete exit from its multi-crore exposure in a floating dock set up by the Jagdish Chokhani-promoted Chokhani group at Chennai about 10 years ago, a consortium led by ICICI Bank has decided to put up the floating dock for an ... More

Shipping directorate kicks off Rs 15-cr e-governance scheme
THE Directorate General of Shipping has initiated a major e-governance project in its office and allied offices to facilitate the shipping industry, shipping agents, classification societies, seafarers and training institutes. The Rs 15-crore ... More

Record cargo handling at Kolkata dock
ON August 30, the Kolkata Dock System (KDS) handled 18 vessels, the highest number of vessels handled in a day by it in past one and a half decade, according to a Kolkata Port Trust press release. The volume of cargo handled on that day was a ... More

New Mangalore port creates handling record
THE New Mangalore Port has handled a record traffic of 21.86 lakh tonnes in August as against the earlier record of 20.43 lakh tonnes handled in March this year. In the first five months of this fiscal, the port handled 9.18 million tonnes of ... More

Kochi boat show on Sept 26-28

RAILWAYS

Konkan Rly `Adding Value to the Valley'
GIVE a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Konkan Railway Corporation seems to have taken this adage rather seriously. As it set out to construct part of the ambitious Kashmir railway ... More

S. Rly, Andhra Bank pact

SBI launches `e-Rail'

Ships in Ports

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