The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, April 05, 2006

JN port container traffic up 12.46 pc
Disproving the notion that productivity in private sector is better than public sector, the Government-owned container terminal at the Jawaharlal Nehru port on Tuesday reported that the container traffic handled by it in the last fiscal exceed, ... More

Floating bookshop coming to Chennai, Vizag
Doulos, one of the world's largest floating bookshops and recognised in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest active ocean-going passenger ship, will arrive in Chennai on April 11, said a source. The ship is coming from ... More

AIR CARGO

Four Soft tool for TNT Freight
TNT Freight Management, a freight forwarding and logistics service provider, has selected Four Soft's iDRIVE business intelligence (BI) application for their global operations. iDRIVE is a Web-centric business intelligence ... More

AIRLINES

AAI inks pacts for airport revamp
Giving a boost to the Government's plans to modernise airports in Delhi and Mumbai, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) today signed the shareholders' agreement and the Operations, Maintenance, Development Agreements (OMDA) for both the ... More

HAL plans to make new military copter
To rope in foreign partner for the venture More

`Balance between flight safety and electronics a challenge'
Consumer electronics and avionics simply refuse to travel together, leaving manufacturers of portable electronic devices (PEDs) with hardly any option but continue their search for common ground that would accommodate both concurrently. Air ... More

Sahara to operate with a new name
To be a 100 pc subsidiary of Jet Airways More

`Give civil aviation policy statutory status'
DGCA must be `sole' apex body More

INSIGHT

Are long working hours endangering flight safety?
Fatigue and stress are ticking time-bombs for airlines More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Govt gives in-principle nod for AI, IA merger
Process likely to be completed this year itself: Praful Patel More

TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS

Rs 2-cr revenue loss to India Gateway
Container trailer crew strike at Kochi port More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Concor hikes tariffs by 22 pc
Within days of the Railways hiking haulage charges, Container Corporation of India (Concor) has increased its tariffs. The increased tariffs came into effect from April 1, which is when the Railways' hiked rates came into effect. On an ... More

RAILWAYS

SER handling up
The South Eastern Railway (SER), a major freight-loading zonal railway, handled 85.86 million tonnes (mt) of originating freight traffic in 2005-06 as compared to 73.07 mt in 2004-05, thus posting 17.5 per cent growth, according to SER ... More

Metro Rail to be extended to Noida
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has signed an agreement with Noida for extension of the Metro to the satellite town. "The cost for the extension will be about Rs 736 crore. Noida will bear the total cost for construction and land cost, ... More