The Hindu Business Line : Friday, January 06, 2006

AI gets Oracle supply chain tool to ease procurement process
AIR India has replaced its paper-based procurement process with an advanced supply chain management solution that helps simplify the procurement process, ensures greater transparency, brings about economics in unit procurement cost and ... More

Fog: AI suspends domestic bookings on Delhi-Mumbai sector
REACTING to the fog-related delays of flights at New Delhi, Air India has temporarily suspended bookings for domestic passengers on the Mumbai-Delhi-Mumbai sector. According to an airline spokesperson, in view of the uncertainty caused by the ... More

Jagson to buy 19 Airbus aircraft — Plans metro route operations in 3-4 months
JAGSON Airlines on Thursday announced its plan to acquire 19 Airbus aircraft over the next three years that would be used to launch flights between major metro cities. "We plan to begin operating on the metro routes by April-May this year. The ... More

INSIGHT

Railways: A derailed social service
IN THE last few years our leaders have been loathe to raise rail fares. `Railways is a social service' and `poor need protection' are the common excuses given by successive Railway Ministers for their refusal to recover cost-inflation. A closer ... More

SHIPPING

Kandla port Dec traffic up 35 pc
KANDLA, one of the 12 major ports in the country, handled 42.74 lakh tonnes of cargo in December 2005, marking a 35 per cent increase compared to the corresponding month in 2004. The cargo throughput in one month was, in fact, the highest ... More

Delhi-Mumbai rail corridor: Minor Gujarat ports likely to benefit
PORTS along the coast of Gujarat may have good news in store. The Delhi-Mumbai leg of the dedicated rail freight corridor is likely to be built in a manner so that the minor ports along the Gujarat coast can be served as well. If the rail ... More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Market bullish on Concor
DESPITE the announcement of the policy to do away with Container Corporation of India's (Concor) monopoly in container traffic movement on the railway network, investors preferred to look the other way. The stock bucked the trend with market ... More

RAILWAYS

Railways opens up container operations — Concor monopoly ends; Pipavav Rly Corpn, Kutch Rail may benefit
THE Indian Railways today opened up its containerised operations to other private and public sector players breaking the monopoly enjoyed by Container Corporation of India. Interested companies can take route-specific or all-India permission ... More

Children lead the way at science congress
WHILE veteran scientists are busy discussing serious issues such as disaster management, conservation of mushroom fungi and new biology at the Indian Science Congress, budding scientists are telling people how to work wonders in their daily lives ... More

Railways to have controlling stake in freight corridor SPV
THE Railways will have controlling stake in an SPV that would be formed to implement the dedicated rail freight corridor. The SPV would have a revenue sharing arrangement by the way of apportioning earnings for trains run on different ... More

Nalco to buy 241 specialised rly wagons — To transport increased alumina output from Damonjodi
NATIONAL Aluminium Company (Nalco), the public sector aluminium major, having both mining and manufacturing facilities in Orissa, proposes to acquire an additional 241 specialised railway wagons, each of 55 tonnes capacity, to facilitate ... More

Concor to pay Rs 50 crore to Rlys to continue operations
CONTAINER Corporation of India (Concor) will now have to pay Rs 50 crore to the Indian Railways as registration fee for continuing its operations. The Union Railways Minister, Mr Lalu Prasad, on Thursday said that there were no plans to ... More

ROADWAYS

BPCL to give dhabas run for the money — To expand one-stop shop for truckers
THE NEXT time a truck driver commences his long and tedious journey from one end of the country to another, using the 65,569-km-long national highway network, he will not have to put up with the dhabas (roadside eateries) and their ... More

PEOPLE

New Shipping Secy assumes charge
NEW DELHI: Mr A.K. Mohapatra on Wednesday assumed charge as the new Shipping Secretary. Mr Mohapatra, an IAS officer of the Himachal Pradesh cadre, was Secretary in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs before joining the Shipping ... More

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