LOGISTICS
AIRLINES
Flying overseas: Mallya writes to PM
THE UB group, which is promoting the airline Kingfisher, has written to the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, protesting against the Government's proposal to stipulate a requirement of five years' experience in the domestic skies before private ...
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`Fill up AI board vacancies within fixed timeframe'
THE process for filling up the four vacant posts of functional directors in Air India representing the commercial, personnel and engineering department should be completed within a fixed timeframe, the Committee on Public Undertakings has said in ...
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Special purpose vehicle to be floated for Hyderabad MMTS
A SPECIAL purpose vehicle will be floated to put in place an efficient Multi-Modal Transport System (MMTS) envisaged to ease pressure on Hyderabad roads. The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet has taken a decision on Wednesday to float a 50:50 joint ...
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IOC awards submersible pipeline contract to Iran co
IRANIAN Offshore Engineering & Construction Company, an Iran-based company, has bagged the order for laying the 22-km long submersible pipeline between the single buoy mooring (SBM) proposed to be installed in the sea off Paradip port and the ...
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SHIPPING
Aqua Bus - A Skate variant from KSINC
AQUA BUS, a modified version of Skate 20 boats, has been introduced by the State public sector Kerala Shipping and Inland Navigation Corporation to ply on the Kochi backwaters. Mr K.N. Satheesh, Managing Director of KSINC, said that the new ...
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Vizhinjam terminal: Kerala to review project structure
THE Kerala Government is set to review the project structure of the proposed international container transhipment terminal at Vizhinjam, near here. This has been necessitated after a slew of suggestions made by prospective investors who ...
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Concor examining profitable freight routes
CONTAINER Corporation of India (Concor) is in the process of identifying the new demand areas and bottlenecks in the freight transport routes, where railway lines are required to be in place to connect import/export gateways. After completing ...
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RAILWAYS
Kerala Cabinet okays metro rail for Kochi city
THE Kerala Cabinet has approved the establishment of a "light metro rail system" in Kochi on a build-own-transfer (BOT) basis. The State Government will also participate in the project, which is roughly estimated to cost Rs 2,000 crore, ...
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Railways freight revenue rises 9 pc
THE Railways earned Rs 19,355.47 crore from 384.70 million tonnes (mt) of revenue freight during the first eight months of the current fiscal ended November. This is up 8.92 per cent compared to Rs 17,770.64 crore from 358.27 mt of such traffic ...
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Online train ticket booking for Syndicate Bank customers
ROADWAYS
ADB clears $400-m loan for North-South corridor
THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday approved a $ 400-million loan for upgrading key sections of the North-South corridor to boost transport efficiency and expand economic opportunities. The project will upgrade and increase the ...
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Tuticorin RTO launches plastic driving licence cards
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