The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Air Arabia, Kingfisher tie up for Mangalore to Gulf flights
AIR Arabia LLC, the first international low-fares airline in India, has tied up with Kingfisher Air to offer customers in Mangalore direct flights to the United Arab Emirates. A press statement from Air Arabia said with a single reservation, ... More

`New airline alliance not opposed to Jet-Sahara deal'
THE Kingfisher Air Chairman, Mr Vijay Mallya, has criticised the Air Deccan Managing Director, Capt G.R. Gopinath, for stating that the objective behind forming a new alliance of domestic airlines was to oppose the monopoly of Jet Airways. In a ... More

Indian Airlines offers special fares on select sectors
The airline, which has a load factor of about 70 per cent on the Chennai-Bangkok sector, is offering a special return fare of Rs 8,950, (excluding tax of Rs 2,021). On the Chennai-Singapore sector the airline has a fare of Rs 10,475 (plus tax ... More

Air Deccan services
KOCHI: In its efforts to connect smaller towns and cities in the country, Air Deccan is commencing services to five new destinations such as Tiruchy, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Aurangabad and Rajkot from February 1. With this, 51 ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Govt to consider more bidders for Delhi, Mumbai airports modernisation
THE Government is looking to broad base the bidding process for modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports and now plans to open the financial bids of four of the six bidders participating in the restructuring of the two metro airports. An ... More

SHIPPING

Mainline vessels may come calling at Kochi port
SEVERAL shipping lines are looking at the possibilities of calling their mainline vessels at Kochi Port with improvements in the productivity of container vessels and their faster turnaround coupled with the increased draught conditions in the ... More

India, Bahamas explore tie-ups in cruise shipping
INDIA and the Bahamas have decided to enter into an agreement to explore the possibilities of cooperation in cruise shipping. This was decided at a meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Public Service of the Bahamas, Mr Frederick ... More

Vizhinjam project to go on stream in 2010: Minister
THE first phase of the proposed Vizhinjam international container transhipment terminal project will go on stream in 2010. The project, envisaged at a total cost of Rs 4,360 crore, is slated to be completed in three phases. The first phase, ... More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Pipavav Rail applies for container operations
Indian Railways had recently announced the policy for allowing players other than Concor to offer containerised services. More

RAILWAYS

Kinfra invites EoIs for Kochi metro project
THE Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Kinfra) has invited expressions of interests from national and international entities for design, procure, finance, build, operate, maintain and transfer of the Kochi Light Metro Rail ... More

OUTLOOK

Concor, Ircon may bid for overseas projects
CONTAINER Corporation of India (Concor) and Ircon, the construction arm of the Indian Railways, are likely to bid for constructing and operating rail lines and container depots in Jordan, Nigeria, Mozambique and Saudi Arabia. Both the ... More

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