LOGISTICS
ACCIDENTS
‘Hot tap’ method to retrieve oil from sunken ship
Mangalore, July 8 Salvage experts from Svitzer Wijsmuller of Holland – who are in Mangalore to initiate the process of retrieving oil from the sunken ship MV Denden – have come to a decision that the best method of ...
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Coast Guard rescues crew
Mangalore, July 8The Indian Coast Guard personnel rescued eight crew members of an oil tanker that was caught in the rough sea off Mangalore coast on Saturday. A press release by the Coast Guard said here that eight crew members of the ...
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AIRLINES
Air Deccan gets Airbus A-320
Madurai, July 8 Air Deccan is replacing its 72-seater ATR 72 with a 180-seater new Airbus A-320 on its Chennai-Madurai and Chennai-Coimbatore sectors effective from July 10. An additional ATR72 flight from Chennai to Thiruvanathapuram ...
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Kesineni online reservation
Kesineni Tours & Travels has transited into the online bus reservation, for its large fleet of buses crisscrossing Andhra Pradesh and reaching major cities across South and Western India.The Chief Operating Officer of Ashok Leyland, ...
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SHIPPING
GoM seeks report on HSL plans
The Group of Ministers (GoM) formed to take a decision on the issue of restructuring Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) has sought a report on the shipyard’s business plans. The report, which will also discuss the extent to which HSL will ...
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Kanika Sands — creating a gulf between two States
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Paradip bags urea
The Paradip Port Trust, which started handling finished fertilisers, mainly urea, last year after 10 years, has commissioned a urea bagging and stitching machine inside the port warehouse to facilitate the handling and evacuation of the imported ...
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Exonerated, at last
The Deputy Chairman of the Cochin Port Trust is a much relieved person today. A nearly 20-year long litigation has ended in his favour. He was charged with negligence of duty and gross incompetence when, as in August 1986, cargo ship m.v. Emaco ...
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PSA Sical pares operations in Tuticorin Port
Container ships may have to stay longer at the port
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More bonded area at Kandla
The Kandla Port Trust proposes to expand the Customs bonded area by about 40 hectares to bring the total to 222 hectares within the next 16 -18 months and has accordingly started the land development work. The total cost of development is ...
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Higher river cargo throughput
The CMD of the Central Inland Water Transport Corporation (CIWTC), the public sector river transport company under the shipping ministry, was recently quoted as saying that his organisation transported about 200,000 tonnes of cargoes in 2006-07, ...
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INTERVIEW
‘TNT plans to spend €100 million in India in five years’
We will be focussing on information technology investment and infrastructure, including hubs and material handling equipment. We plan to spend €6 million on IT and hubs.
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EVENTS
Call for policy to promote transport
Thiruvananthapuram, July 8 A meeting of the Transport Ministers of southern States, Maharashtra and Goa has called upon the Centre to formulate a national transport policy, which lays emphasis on the development of public transport ...
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RAILWAYS
High-speed rail corridor likely for Hyderabad
Hyderabad, July 8 With the GHIAL (GMR Hyderabad International Airport) getting ready for commercial operations early next year, the Andhra Pradesh Government is planning to lay a ‘high-speed’ rail corridor connecting Hyderabad with ...
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