LOGISTICS
AIRLINES
All-cargo airline launch delayed
THE launch of Crescent Air Cargo Services, an all-cargo airline, has been deferred for the moment. The Managing Director of the airline, Captain Deepak Parasuraman, told Business Line that the launch had been "pushed back slightly" to ...
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Lufthansa to operate Delhi-Munich services
THE German airline, Lufthansa, has announced that it would start a three-times-a-week non-stop flight on the Delhi-Munich sector from March 29. In a statement here on Thursday, the airline said that while initially, the flight will be operated ...
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International air travel to cost more
BE prepared to spend a wee bit more for economy-class travel to Europe, the US, South-East Asia and the Far East from April 1 this year. While the listed air fares in economy class are being revised upwards by five per cent for travel to these ...
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IA awaits Govt nod to bargain on Airbus price
THE Indian Airlines (IA) should be in a position to negotiate for prices of the Airbus aircraft that it plans to acquire and this is despite the firming up of prices in the international market in the recent past. "The IA order is big. It is ...
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Is it time for more low-cost airlines?
WHILE the lowering of airfares and introduction of the apex fare system have encouraged more people to travel by air, a question as to whether the Indian market is mature enough for the low-cost, no-frills airlines to enter the services on long ...
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IA changes timings of outbound flights through Coimbatore
INDIAN Airlines has advanced the timing of its outbound thrice-a-week Chennai-Sharjah flight via Coimbatore and Kochi from next month. The change in the timing is due to the runway extension-cum-renovation work being planned at the Peelamedu ...
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Pricol Travels launches e-ticketing for air travel
FOR any air traveller, the most fundamental but a rather irksome processes to complete even before he sets foot into an airport is the purchase of tickets in the conventional form of a booklet. And more the number of passengers in a group, more ...
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INFRASTRUCTURE
5-mt crude buffer at Vizag, Mangalore: Naik
THE Union Government has taken a decision to build strategic buffer reserves of five million tonnes of crude at Mangalore on the west coast and Visakhapatnam on the east coast in underground caverns to take care of about 15 days' imports, ...
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SHIPPING
Bangladeshi barge plying on Hoogly irks Indian operators
THE decision of the Directorate-General of Shipping to allow Bangladeshi barge operators to ply their barges in the Hoogly river for movement of iron ore from anchorage to the Kolkata port has raised the hackles of the Indian barge and inland ...
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APL clarifies
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Postal dept to focus on non-core, premium services
THE Department of Posts hopes to generate a revenue of Rs 1,700 crore from non-core and premium services during the fiscal ending March 31, 2004. In 2002-03, the revenue generated from non-core and premium services was around Rs 1,600 crore. ...
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RAILWAYS
NCL urges Railways to upgrade facilities at Dudhichua colliery
Inquiries with the Railways reveal that the work on rehabilitation will be taken up as soon as the NCL issues a letter promising to pay for it.
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Southern Railway uploads suppliers' bills on the Net
SOUTHERN Railway has uploaded suppliers' bills (payment to be made by it to vendors) on the Internet. This would enable suppliers to know the latest status of their bills on the Web. Launched as a pilot today, the facility would be available to ...
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ROADWAYS
Centre okays Rs 1,428 cr for roads in 7 States
IN yet another clearance, which is likely to go down well with the rural folks just before the elections, the Union Minister of Rural Development, Mr Kashiram Rana, on Thursday approved the proposal for phase-III (2003-04) of the Pradhan Mantri ...
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