The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Kochi port going ahead with preliminary activities for SEZ
THE Cochin Port Trust is going ahead with the preliminary activities for setting up of the port-based special economic zone covering a total area of 456.5 hectares (consisting of 170.7 hectares in Vallarpadam and 285.8 hectares in Puthuvypeen), ... More

Kochi box terminal gets four new RTG cranes
DUBAI Port International, which has taken over the Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal of the Kochi port, has brought in four brand new rubber-tyred-gantry (RTG) cranes to operate in the container yard. These eight-wheeled units will be installed ... More

ABG Shipyard raises Rs 140 cr through private equity
ABG Shipyard Ltd has concluded a Rs 140-crore private equity financing agreement with Standard Chartered Private Equity and IL&FS Investment Managers. ABG is expanding its shipbuilding facilities at a cost of Rs 450 crore to meet the surge in .. More

SOFTWARE

AFL bags contract to manage supply chain for PCS Tech
AFL Private Ltd has bagged a contract to provide its supply chain management (SCM) solutions to PCS Technology Ltd. According to an official statement, under the contract, AFL will implement its surrogate customer account management to help PCS ... More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Concor urges shipping lines to make more use of Dadri ICD
THE Container Corporation of India (Concor) has urged the shippers and shipping lines to make more use of its inland container depot (ICD) at Dadri in preference to the one located at Tughlakabad. Both Dadri and Tughlakabad are located near ... More

RAILWAYS

Railways may need to import 18,000 wheels to meet demand
WITH increased supply of 25,000 wheels from Durgapur Steel Plant and Bangalore-based Rail Wheel Factory (RWF), Indian Railways may need to import about 18,000 wheels in the next six months to meet its projected wheel demand for this financial ... More

Gauge conversion: BJP stages `rail roko' at Mangalore station
MEMBERS of the Bharathiya Janata Party (BJP) — led by the Member of Parliament of Mangalore, Mr Sadananda Gowda - staged a `rail roko' agitation here on Monday. They stopped the Mangalore-Chennai Mail at the Mangalore railway station ... More

ROADWAYS

Safexpress opens offices in North-East
With this expansion, the company would form a dedicated outbound and inbound supply chain in this region. More

Give up strike move, APSRTC unions told
THE Chairman of AP State Road Transport Corporation (RTC), Mr G. Prakasa Rao, has termed the move to go on strike by RTC unions as unjustified in view of the concessions announced recently by the State Government and appealed to them not to go ... More

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