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Flights going chock-a-block as more Indians travel abroad
SLOWLY but surely, the Indian traveller is going global. In the past couple of months almost all the international airlines operating regular flights to and from India have been reporting high passenger load factors. The trend is likely to ...
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Lufthansa's online quiz to promote Munich flight
LUFTHANSA, the German airline, has started an online campaign to promote the newly launched Delhi-Munich flight. In a statement here, Lufthansa said that a month-long quiz contest `Fly a crane to Munich' was currently ongoing on its India Web ...
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Higher turbine fuel price hurts IA
INDIAN Airlines may not be unduly perturbed over the appreciation of the rupee against the dollar, but it is on a sticky wicket as far as the average price of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) that it is required to pay for, from April 1 ...
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SHIPPING
P&O Ports rejigs staff structure in India
P&O Ports, the global port operator that runs container terminals at Nhava Sheva, Chennai and Mundra ports, has carried out a restructuring of staff in its India operations as part of a cost-cutting drive. The London-based port operating ...
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Kolkata port posts 15% traffic growth
THE Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) has posted nearly 15 per cent growth in traffic in 2003-04 over 2002-03 compared with the national average of (all major ports taken together) 9.89 per cent. During the year, the total traffic throughput of the ...
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ABG subsidiary arm bags Kolkata port terminal project
CARDINAL Logistics Ltd (CLL), the newly formed subsidiary of ABG Heavy Industries Ltd (a major player in the port and infrastructure development sector), has bagged the contract for development and operation of the Kolkata port container terminal ...
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Evergreen group to set up shop in India
INDIA'S steady growth in container traffic is attracting large container shipping lines to set up shop in the country, rather than operate through agencies. Taiwan's Evergreen Group, the latest to have its own presence in India, has formed its ...
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EVENTS
Talk on `Vaimanika Sastram' in Thiruvananthapuram
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Institution of Engineers (India), Kerala State Centre, is hosting a talk on `Vaimanika Sastram' at the Institution Hall here on Wednesday. The talk, being delivered by Mr D.K. Hari, a Chennai-based management ...
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ROADWAYS
Why road safety is the casualty?
TODAY, the World Health Day is being observed it with an extremely relevant theme: "Road Safety is No Accident". In India, it is a continuing series of accidents. First, the National Road Safety Policy adopted in ...
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