The Hindu Business Line : Monday, December 04, 2006

AIR CARGO
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Finnair Cargo has before it a proposal for increasing the number of flights between New Delhi and Helsinki to five a week from the three now. The additional flights are to be launched from early next year, it is learnt. Finnair Cargo introduced ... More

AIRLINES
Passenger first on Indian's consolidation flight plan
Indian plans major upgrade putting in place a modern Passenger Service System. More

SHIPPING
Major plans for minor ports
The role of minor ports run by State governments is going to be crucial for the country in the next five years. Recognising this, the maritime States have drawn up plans for a number of projects to expand their port capacities considerably. Under ... More

Will L&T's Kakinada shipyard plans set sail?
With two other big projects in the region hanging fire, the people of Kakinada are hoping the L&T terminal will come to pass. More

Yangtze, busiest river
The volume of traffic moving along the Yangtze river in China is expected to reach nearly one billion tonnes in 2006, 15.1 per cent over that in 2005, according to a report in the People's Daily. The Yangtze thus has emerged as one of the ... More

Take-over target?
The death of Hanjin Shipping's Chairman and CEO, Mr Sooho Cho, is believed to have fuelled speculation that the shipping company may now become a take-over target. Sooho Cho held 6.9 per cent stake in the company. Sooho Cho, who joined Hanjin ... More

INTERVIEW
`Dependence on one commodity often creates problems'
"We've no choice. There are a few other zonal railways which too depend on a single commodity. Besides, coal accounts for 65 per cent of the total traffic throughput of the Indian Railways." — MR S. K. VIJ, GENERAL MANAGER, EAST CENTRAL RAILWAY More

RAILWAYS
IRCTC launches tour packages for Darjeeling, Gangtok
Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a subsidiary of the Indian Railways, has launched two separate tour packages for Darjeeling and Gangtok. This is IRCTC's first such tour programme for the eastern region. The duration of ... More

The Grand `old' Chord
The East Central Railway will be celebrating 100 years of the completion of the Grand Chord section on December 6. The 450-km Grand Chord section, originally under East India Railway then Eastern Railway and now under East Central Railway, links ... More

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