The Hindu Business Line : Monday, April 03, 2006

Cathay Pacific freighter service to link Chennai
Cathay Pacific Airways plans to operate a twice-weekly freighter service linking Hong Kong to Mumbai and to Chennai for the first time. It will be the airline's first direct freighter service from India to Hong Kong. According to ... More

INSIGHT

Where is the threat?
Facts failed to quell the uproar in the US over the Dubai-based company DP World's bid to take over P&O's six port terminals in the US and to stop the subsequent cancellation of the bid. Logical arguments cut no ice with American politicians ... More

SHIPPING

Five-month saga
October 2005: British-owned Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co, that runs operations at more than 100 ports all over the world (including five in the US — New York/New Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami and New Orleans) ... More

Vizag is No 1 port
The Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT) has emerged the premier port in the country for the sixth consecutive year with a throughput exceeding 55 million tonnes. In 2005-06, the VPT handled a record 55.80 million tonnes after easily passing the ... More

KRL project set to transform face of Vypeen island
Rs 18 crore earmarked for community development More

Screen-based FFA
The shareholders of CIF Ltd., the new company formed by Clarksons, Ifchor and FIS, the founding fathers of modern forward freight agreement (FFA) market, have announced that the line launch of their screen-based FFA facility will happen at the ... More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

For third party logistics service providers, it is boom time
TVS Logistics plays a major role in the entire supply chain management. It analyses data and does "part-by-part" planning. More

INTERVIEW

`Despite initial shortfall, we hope to maintain last year's throughput level'
We have made up the initial shortfall on account of the shutdown of a KRL plant and hope to maintain last year's throughput level. More

RAILWAYS

On corporation track
The Pakistan Government is working on a scheme to turn its Railways into a corporation. The county's Minister for Railways has been quoted as saying that initial work has been completed. Only certain issues are yet to be sorted out between the ... More

ROADWAYS

Walk the line
FOR THE PEDESTRIANS: The first suspension foot over-bridge erected at Begumpet Public School road in Hyderabad at the cost of Rs 65 lakh. This is among the 13 foot over-bridge planned in the twin citites. ... More

High altitude CFS
Nepal is planning to upgrade its Arniko highway and construct container freight stations (CFSs) at high altitudes as part of its scheme to develop highway as a transit route for promotion of trade with India and China. The 114-km highway has to ... More

Transport corridors
The Bangladesh Government has identified nearly 20 strategic transport corridors covering rail, road and river routes to facilitate trade with India while the political decision whether or not to provide India with transit and transshipment ... More

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