The Hindu Business Line : Monday, December 15, 2003

More `swadeshi' flights for the SAARC-bound
WILL the twin decisions of the Union Cabinet to allow scheduled private sector airlines to operate to the six SAARC nations and designated airlines of the 10-member Asean bloc to fly into the country bring any real benefit to India? Opinion on ... More

Airlines to increase fuel surcharge
BRITISH Airways World Cargo (BAWC) has announced its plan to increase fuel surcharge to pound sterling 0.09/kg, or local equivalent, with effect from December 18. The increase is believed to have been caused by the ... More

Qatar Air offers more services
QATAR Airways has announced its plans to add nine additional flights per week to India to offer passengers daily flights to Mumbai, Kochi, Hyderabad and Thiruvananthapuram, according to a company communiqué. The Chief Executive Officer of ... More

SHIPPING

Coastal movement of POL products — Oil cos' proposal to water down cost
To keep freight costs down, the oil companies have proposed to join hands for the combined movement of petroleum products along the coastal route. Separate movement, they feel, would result in reduction of the parcel size, duplication of movement and port congestion. More

Sales tax shock for SCI
The taxman's sudden notice to SCI to shell out sales tax from ship charter payments was as unexpected as it was `well-timed' by the ST Department. More

The long wait for Vallarpadam
LAST week, the Union Shipping Secretary, Mr D.T. Joseph, told reporters at Kochi that the Centre is keen to push through the Vallarpadam international container transshipment project quickly, a message that, he claimed, had been clearly conveyed ... More

Freedom to IOC to make shipping arrangements — Threat to our existence, says industry
The recent decision to give IOC the freedom to make its own shipping arrangements for crude imports has stunned domestic ship-owners, who will be hard hit by the withdrawal of the oil corporation's substantial cargo support. The move does not seem to make much economic sense, either. More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

`Customers becoming more discerning'
SOME four years ago, when Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd launched a new division — Transport Solutions Group (TSG) — to sell not only vehicles but also their applications, little did it know that providing ... More

RAILWAYS

E.C. Railway uses Ontrack platform for e-tendering
EAST Central Railway has begun to utilise the services of Ontrack System Ltd's electronic tendering platform, tendertimes.com. The zonal railway has, for the first time, hosted tenders for electronic bidding on the portal. Stating this at a ... More

ROADWAYS

Bumpy road ahead
Widening of the highway to Cochin International Airport will have to overcome the opposition of local people, who are now demanding return of the land acquired long back by the Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL). The land was acquired as ... More

AP: Golden Quadrilateral bridge inaugurated
THE Golden Quadrilateral project will be completed by the end of 2004, barring a few small stretches on the Mumbai-Chennai and Kolkata-New Delhi routes, Major-General B.C. Khanduri, the Union Minister for Road Transport, has said. He was ... More

Kerala: GIS for building roads

Ships in Ports

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