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`Pvt airlines must share uneconomic routes'
THE Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Airlines (IA), Mr Sunil Arora, has reiterated his demand for a level playing field in the domestic civil aviation sector. He said that private airlines must share the burden of plying on uneconomic ...
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Air Deccan hopes to launch metro services by Aug 13
THE country's only low-cost airline, Air Deccan, should soon be in a position to launch flights connecting the country's major metros. The Air Deccan Managing Director, Capt G.R. Gopinath, told Business Line that the airline had secured ...
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Tax on aircraft acquisition worries aviation industry
THE top brass of the domestic civil aviation industry met with the Secretary Civil Aviation, Mr Ajay Prasad, to again voice its concerns on the impact of the Budget proposals on the sector. The domestic aviation industry has been troubled with ...
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Govt may follow limited time open sky policy
IN an effort to facilitate air travel to-and-from India during the peak season, the Government is considering the option of following a limited time open sky policy for international airlines. Official sources indicated that the open sky policy ...
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Happy birthday!
An Indian Airlines 320 aircraft under maintenance at the hangar of the IA engineering section in Hyderabad on Monday. The airline completed 51 years of service on Monday. To mark the occasion, employees who completed 25 years of service were ...
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SHIPPING
Maersk-Concor terminal at JNPT — Port users petition Govt for safeguard measures
WITHOUT calling for cancelling the Letter of Intent (LoI) issued to Maersk-Concor consortium for developing and operating a new container terminal at Jawaharlal Nehru Port, the trade and industry patronising the port have urged the Government to ...
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JNPT to suspend import handling of metal scrap
FACED with an unprecedented growth in import of metal scrap destined for Concor's inland container depot (ICD) in Ludhiana, the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) has decided to suspend handling of import rail containers carrying iron/steel scrap ...
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Gujarat Maritime bid to lure private investments in intermediate ports
IT has been a while since Gujarat had it big with private sector investment in its intermediate ports. In 1992, came Pipavav with SeaKing Engineers India emerging as the first private sector port developer in the country. Then, it was the turn ...
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Bidding date for Vizhinjam terminal project extended
THE last date for submitting technical and financial bids for the development of the Vizhinjam international container transhipment terminal has been extended to October 15. The earlier deadline was August 15 and this has been extended by two ...
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Bandh has little impact on Kolkata port work
THE 12-hour strike called by the All India Nationalist Trinamul Congress in West Bengal did not have much of an impact on port operations in Haldia. According to the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) sources, attendance in Haldia dock system was ...
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RAILWAYS
New Member Traffic at Railway Board
MR Rajendra Nath Aga, a 1968-batch Indian Railways Traffic Service (IRTS) officer, has taken over as Member Traffic at the Railway Board. He succeeds Mr K.K. Agarwal, who retired on July 31. Earlier, Mr Aga was General Manager of South Western ...
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ROADWAYS
Ashley launches transport exchange
ASHLEY Transport Services Ltd, a company promoted by Ashok Leyland and Ashok Leyland Finance, has launched `Transport Exchange' - a freight management intermediary service for moving goods by road. Transport Exchange will have a paid-up ...
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Strike is off
Commuters in Kochi tried out new ways to reach their destinations as the private bus stayed off the road on Monday. The bus operators called off the week-long strike following talks with the ministerial sub-committee in Thiruvananthapuram late in ...
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