The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Jet announces plans to buy 20 aircraft
JET Airways (India) Ltd today announced plans for a major fleet expansion, entailing aircraft acquisition from both Boeing and Airbus. The agreement with Boeing is for 20 airplanes comprising six B777-200LR Worldliners, four B777-300Ers, and 10 ... More

Infy in Airbus programme
BANGALORE: Infosys Technologies on Tuesday announced that it has worked with Airbus on A380 programme. Infosys worked on the design and development of the top and bottom skin extensions within the inner fixed trailing edge for the ... More

SHIPPING

SCI scans the horizon for acquisitions
WHAT do you do when you are sitting on shareholders funds worth Rs 3,688 crore and you are desperately looking to buy ships to cash in on the firm freight market, but there are no new ships available in the global market at least till 2008? ... More

Delay in Paradip-Haldia pipeline
Crude lighterage may be handled at Sandheads till March
THE crude lighterage operation at the Sandheads, the mouth of the Hooghly river, which is to be closed down from January 2006, may continue till March and beyond, according to informed sources. The 330-km-long Paradip-Haldia crude pipeline, ... More

GE Shipping takes delivery of vessel
GREAT Eastern Shipping, India's largest shipping company in the private sector, took delivery of a 2003-built Handymax dry bulk carrier, Jag Rahul. The 52,364 DWT ship was contracted in March 2005. With the induction of the vessel, the ... More

NMP unions stage protest against port divestment
FIVE unions operating at New Mangalore Port (NMP) staged a half-hour demonstration in front of the administrative office of the Trust on Tuesday in protest against the Union Government's plans of divestment in major ports of India. Mr N. ... More

Sethusamudram project at core of CII report
It also emphasised the need to provide international air connectivity to Madurai and reactivating the Tuticorin airport, the report said. More

TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS

Protest against ports privatisation
PORT and dockworkers staged demonstrations before the Mumbai port office on Tuesday, as part of a nation-wide agitation against the privatisation of major ports. Addressing a rally of port and dockworkers, Mr S.R. Kulkarni, President of the ... More

Ships in Ports

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