The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Travel agents to strike work on April 8
TRAVEL agents across the country will go on a day's strike on April 8 to protest against the decision by Air India and a few European carriers to reduce the agent's commission to 5 per cent from 7 per cent, from May 1. This decision comes close ... More

SHIPPING

Nalco to resume aluminium ingots exports thru Paradip port
NATIONAL Aluminium Company (Nalco), the Orissa-based aluminium giant in central public sector, proposes to resume exports of aluminium ingots in containers through Paradip port after a gap of two months. "We will shortly resume shipments ... More

Call to provide proper training to seafarers
SHIPPING experts have stressed the need for providing proper training to maritime personnel in the country to meet the growing requirements in the changed scenario. Speaking at the 42nd Maritime Day celebrations at Kochi port, they were of the ... More

Maritime varsity to take shape this fiscal
THE proposed Indian Maritime University, which will be bringing all the maritime training institutes in the country under its umbrella, will begin to take shape in the current fiscal. Mr G.S. Sahni, Director-General of Shipping, told ... More

KSINC poised to buy vessel for Vizhinjam-Colombo service
THE State-owned Kerala Shipping and Inland Navigation Corporation (KSINC) is actively pursuing a proposal to operate a passenger ship service between Vizhinjam and Colombo. As the first step in this direction, the public sector company plans to ... More

RAILWAYS

Rlys conducts first crashworthy test
RESEARCH Designs & Standards Organisation (RDSO), an arm of the Railways, has successfully conducted the full-scale actual crashworthy test for the first time in the country for a passenger train coach. Crashworthy coaches are specially ... More

Summer specials to Bangalore
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Southern Railway will operate special trains between Bangalore and Nagercoil to clear the extra summer rush of passengers. An official spokesman said here that these services would be operated on the ... More

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