The Hindu Business Line : Monday, September 18, 2006

AIR CARGO
Indian, AI get the goods
By the reckoning of the Civil Aviation Ministry brass, the issue of cargo transportation by air by the state-owned carriers has started receiving a good deal of attention. Thus, three old passenger planes are being modified and transformed into ... More

AIRLINES
US airlines upbeat on India flights
With the first year of successful operations approaching, both American Airlines and Continental Airlines are working on some modifications to further attract the customer. More

SHIPPING
Storm in a teu cup
A Japanese shipping line may have succeeded in pushing an Indian shipping line out of the business of handling shipments of Indian tea to a UK-based company, by quoting "attractive" rates but not without throwing up a lot of problems for itself ... More

Big interest in Pak mega port
Three international port terminal operators — PSA International, A P Moller-Maersk and Dubai Port World — which are already active in India, are believed to have shown interest along with three others in the deep-water container port ... More

Bewildering choices for LNG carriers
These are not easy times to be involved in LNG carrier operations. The market is demanding increasing number of vessels including ice-class carriers to trade in the new frontier of LNG production — the Arctic waters, off the Barents Sea. ... More

GRSE takes up modernisation
Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) has taken up modernisation project at a cost of Rs 400 crore and it is to be completed in two or three years, according to Rear-Admiral (retd) T.S. Ganeshan. Rear-Admiral Ganeshan, ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Airline mergers take wing
The world over, airlines continue to be strictly controlled by governments, which make laws that prevent foreign airlines from taking ownership stake in their national carriers. The reason why the airline industry has not consolidated, as any ... More

INTERVIEW
`Rationalisation of tariffs' put wind in KoPT sails
We offered massive tariff concessions for items with negligible throughput. This sent the message that the port meant business and a lot of interest was generated in the trade. — DR A. K. CHANDA, CHAIRMAN. KOLKATA PORT TRUST More

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