The Hindu Business Line : Monday, September 15, 2003

IA to conduct road show to promote Sharjah
The objective of the road show is to showcase Sharjah as a preferred destination and to interact with travel agents, tour operators based in India and to show facilities available in Sharjah. More

Traffic recovery peaks in July: IATA study
EVEN as the world observed the second anniversary of the events of September 11, which dealt a deadly blow to the global aviation industry, there comes some cheer from the Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of ... More

INSIGHT

India's civil aviation needs free flight
THE first commercial flight in India was made on February 18,1911, when a French pilot Monseigneur Piguet flew airmails from Allahabad to Naini, covering a distance of about 10 km in as many minutes. Since then several ... More

SHIPPING

Vallarpadam box terminal — Centre must consider sailing alone
With the private bidders feeling that the Vallarpadam transhipment project entails too many risks. it is time the Government took it up as a national project. More

Tariff fixation for major ports — Move away from cost plus regime
THE Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP) was constituted in 1997 under the Major Port Trusts Act. TAMP finalised the first set of guidelines for tariff fixation and conditionalities in 1998. These are to be reviewed ... More

SOFTWARE

Kale Consultants delivers cargo solution to Asiana Airlines
KALE Consultants Ltd has delivered the first new generation enterprise-wide cargo solution, CSP to Seoul- based Asiana Airlines. This is part of the multi-million dollar contract signed between Asiana and Kale for procurement of Kale's cargo ... More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

As containers sail the China way ...
Indian imports-exports boxed
CHINA'S exports rose to $265 billion in the first eight months of 2003, a 32 per cent jump over the corresponding period. This helped fill up more ships and allowed shipping lines to raise freight. So what, one may ask ... More

ROADWAYS

Thiruvananthapuram road expansion works to begin in Dec
WORK on the Rs 112-crore Capital City Roads Improvement Scheme, which will cover some 42 km in Thiruvananthapuram, is scheduled to begin in December, according to Mr Babu Jacob, Additional Chief Secretary. He was speaking at a meeting ... More

Exporters seek bypass road outside Petrapole
EXPORTERS to Bangladesh, using the Petrapole-Benapole point in West Bengal, are now demanding a bypass road outside Bongaon, the border town. They hope this will help them to tackle both the severe parking problem as ... More

Ships in Ports

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