The Hindu Business Line : Friday, January 09, 2009

LOGISTICS

SHIPPING/PORTS: Major ports’ cargo traffic rises 2% in Dec quarter
Significant increase in handling of iron ore. Cargo handling through the country’s 12 major ports has shown a marginal increase of 2 per cent in the quarter ended December 2008 when compared with the previous ...

TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS: Movement of goods, essentials largely remains unaffected
Container operators association in ports joins transport strike. Mumbai/New Delhi, Jan. 8 While the movement of goods and essential commodities largely remained unaffected on the fourth day of the transport strike, there were some reports that ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Shimoga, Gulbarga airports: Maytas Infra still in picture
Bangalore, Jan. 8 It may be early yet to read the fate of Shimoga and Gulbarga airport projects, in which Maytas Infra, an entity promoted by the Ramalinga Raju family, ...

TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS: Transporters’ strike drives up sugar prices
Rates increase Rs 155 a quintal in a week. Mumbai, Jan 8 Sugar prices seem to have started rising sooner than expected. Prices were slated to rise this year as the production was expected to be much lower than last year, but traders are baffled ...

PEOPLE: New GM for Eastern Rly
Mr Deepak Krishan has taken over as the new General Manager of Eastern Railway. Prior to this, he was Additional Member (Civil Engineering), Railway Board. Mr Krishan is a 1973 batch officer of Indian Railway Service of Engineers (IRSE), ...

AIRLINES: International passenger traffic up 34.7% at Mangalore airport
Mangalore, Jan. 8 Mangalore airport – which connects coastal Karnataka with Gulf countries — recorded a growth of 34.78 per cent in international passenger traffic during the calendar year ...

RAILWAYS: Coimbatore industries urged to capitalise on Railway project
Coimbatore, Jan 8 There will be enormous opportunities for the engineering industries in Coimbatore to become suppliers to the railway coach factory to come up at Kanjikode in Palakkad district since Kerala does not have much ...

TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS: Dock workers' wage issue
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TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS: AP Govt ready for talks with striking truckers
Hyderabad, Jan. 8 The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, said that while the State Government is ready to talk to lorry owners and concede their genuine demands, it will not tolerate any unreasonable and ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: Shell brings spot LNG cargo at Hazira
Kolkata, Jan. 8 Shell brought a spot LNG cargo at Hazira terminal today at a time when the shadow of an acute energy crisis was looming large on Gujarat and other parts of the country due to near complete disruption of natural gas supplies ...

AIRLINES: Kolkata flight operations unlikely to be hit by oil strike
Kolkata, Jan. 8 Flights at the Kolkata Airport will not be affected at least for the next 10 days on account of the indefinite strike called by officers of public sector oil companies as there is enough reserve of aviation turbine fuel at ...

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