The Hindu Business Line : Monday, May 15, 2006

Nagpur to emerge as key logistics hub
Nagpur has suddenly shot into limelight. The city is to emerge as the country's one of the important logistics centres. Thus, Nagpur airport is to become the country's first national air cargo hub, the civil aviation minister has been quoted as ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Promise of world-class experience
Hyderabad airport project More

`Enhance capacity of airports to handle foreign trade'
The Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) has said that the capacity of domestic airports to handle foreign trade in value terms should be enhanced to 40 per cent of the total trade from the present level of 30 per cent. In a statement the ... More

SHIPPING

Shipyards: Building on the boom
With global shipyards brimming with orders and unable to take any fresh ones, interest is building among Indian players to set up yards or expand existing facilities. More

GAC expands network
GAC Marine Logistics (GML) has expanded its network by opening a new office in Mumbai, to focus on major players of the maritime sector in the subcontinent, according to shipping industry sources. With this, Mumbai joins GML's existing network ... More

All at sea
When RRS Discovery, a British research vessel, set out to sea, the crew was expecting stormy weather as the meteorologists had predicted storm and the scientists on board, all from Britain's National Oceanography Centre, were preparing themselves ... More

Campaign on lifeboats
The Committee of the Indian Ocean MoU recently agreed to conduct a concentrated inspection campaign on lifeboats and lifeboat-launching equipment to ensure that the seafarers in the Indian Ocean region have access to appropriate appliances in ... More

RAILWAYS

Kolkata metro must change track
The Kolkata metro should be de-linked from the Indian Railways and reconstituted into a separate company with accent on the way it is run in other parts of the world. It should, preferably, be integrated with the new east-west underground system bein g planned for the city. More

21 in race for 4 budget hotels of Railways
Indian Railways has received 21 bids from hoteliers who want to set up and operate budget hotels on Railways' land in Chandigarh, Vijayawada, Secunderabad and Madurai. In the first phase, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) ... More

Chennai-Kochi trains to have `Raksha Kavach'
Southern Railway proposes to fit trains in the Chennai-Kochi section with `Raksha Kavach,' an Anti-Collision Device (ACD), at a cost of Rs 71 crore. Raksha Kavach is a self-acting, micro-processor-based data communication device designed and ... More

ROADWAYS

Overhauling the road sector
A Parliamentary Committee has recommended several measures, including issuance of goods forwarding notes, mutual agreement on fixing the liability in case of loss or damage, punishment for overloading and single registration of all common carriers. More

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