The Hindu Business Line : Monday, November 27, 2006

AIR CARGO
Making IT solutions work for air cargo operations
As several airline operators increasingly incorporate IT solutions into cargo operations, more IT companies are offering sector-specific solutions. More

AIRLINES
As pretty as an airport
Douglas Adams fans may recognise the headline from one of his novels, and the right context is "It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase, `as pretty as an airport.'" Whether you argue about the ... More

SHIPPING
Problems at Chittagong port
Imports and exports to and from Bangladesh have suffered immensely. While the blockade by the Opposition particularly hit the movement of cargo by the land route, labour go-slows and the full-blown strike by Chittagong port's gantry crane ... More

Where are all the BoxNs?
If Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) recently faced problems in regard to the availability of imported coal routed through Visakhapatnam port, it was largely due to the non-availability of BoxN ... More

NMPT banks on rail connectivity
Buoyed by the surge in rail cargo traffic (from five lakh tonnes in 2003-04 to 1.5 million tonnes in 2005-06, and likely to touch two million tonne level in 2006-07), New Mangalore Port Trust is working on a major railway upgrade plan. The plan ... More

Bidding for port control
Early this year, DP World's bid to acquire the operations of five US ports by virtue of its acquisition of P&O Ports's global operations kicked off a political storm in the US, so much so that the New York and New Jersey Senators pushed for a ... More

RAILWAYS
`Green signal' for Vallarpadam rail alignment
From among the four proposals, the Appellate Committee for finalising the rail alignment has chosen the second one, which covers a distance of 8.86 km since the number of residents affected by the alignment is the least. More

ROADWAYS
Are highways speed-breakers to Mangalore area development?
Mangalore — a Tier II city thatis attracting huge investments — is now facing bottlenecks in the form of poor road infrastructure, especially on NH 17 and NH 48. A placard at a recent protest march by various trade and industry bodies ... More

Overcoming roadblocks
As the World Bank-aided Kerala State Transport Project has come under a cloud following a standoff between the State Government and the project's contractors, it is time for Kerala to adopt new standards for public contracting. More

TRENDS
Passenger comfort, the new mantra for airlines
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BOOKS
Container rates still opaque
Containerisation is `the fastest growing cargo segment in shipping', Edelweiss Capital has said. Container traffic in India has grown at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 14 per cent during 2000-06 to 4.7 million TEUs (twenty-foot ... More

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