The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, March 24, 2007

AIRLINES
SriLankan promotional offer on Net booking
SriLankan Airlines has announced a special promotional offer on Internet bookings on flights from India to three European destinations. Passengers buying tickets through the airline's Web site can fly from nine Indian cities to London, Paris ... More

Silk Air announces special fares
Silk Air has announced special promotional airfares from Thiruvananthapuram to three destinations in East Asia. On the Thiruvananthapuram-Singapore route, the airline has introduced a special return fare of Rs 8,000 per adult ... More

Change in Jet flight timings
Jet Airways (I) Ltd has announced that it will be changing the timings of its Bangalore-Mangalore-Bangalore flight from March 25. A press release said here on Friday that the flight no. 9W519 will depart from Bangalore at 8.35 ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE
`New SEZs without affecting agriculture'
Plan for two shipyards More

SHIPPING
CBEC order allows cargo de-stuffing for foreign shippers
`Goods from different countries can be assembled at Indian ports' More

Ministry mulls doing away with port classification
Ports now handle more containerised cargo than bulk More

SOFTWARE
Wipro ties up with IATA for e-freight initiative
Wipro Technologies has entered into a partnership with International Air Transport Association (IATA) for its e-freight initiative. The financial details of the engagement were not disclosed. By joining the IATA e-freight Preferred Partner ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES
Concern over reduced labour deployment at Kochi port
Cochin Port Labour Union, a major CITU affiliated trade union that represents private labour employed in the port, is holding its 38th annual general body meeting on March 26. Dr M.K. Pandhe, President of CITU, will inaugurate the session in ... More

Needed: More air traffic controllers
Even as the Indian skies are getting increasingly crowded with airline companies augmenting their fleet and expanding operations, one key stakeholder group in the domestic aviation firmament, clearly under pressure, is the fraternity of air ... More

EVENTS
Mitsui Leasing eyeing Indian market
Tokyo-based Mitsui Leasing is looking for a local Indian partner to enter the asset-based transportation leasing market. "With 14 container operators, we are evaluating the wagon leasing market," Mr Mishihiro Nose, General Manager of Mitsui ... More

RAILWAYS
Rail operators pool best practices for higher market share
In the backdrop of losing market share to shipping and road sector, railway operators from several countries have decided to pool in their best practices with a common vision — increase the share of rail transport in domestic as well as the ... More

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