The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, July 10, 2008

LOGISTICS

RAILWAYS: Iron ore traffic in East Coast railway line suspended again
Section of the line in Chhattisgarh blown up. The iron ore movement along the 450-km long Kirandul-Kottavalasa line (K-K line) under the East Coast Railway (ECoR) remained suspended again from the early hours of Tuesday as a section of the ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Bangalore Metro to award most contracts by year-end
Decisions and awards on most of the tenders for the Bangalore Metro transit project will be completed by this year-end, said Mr N. Sivasailam, Managing Director of Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. ...

AIRLINES: AI mulls scrapping agents’ commission
It’s among slew of measures to cut costs. New Delhi, July 9 Air India, which is expecting to report net losses in excess of Rs 2,500 crore for the financial year 2008-09, is looking at a slew of cost-cutting measures, including going in ...

AIRLINES: AP gets serious about utilising Begumpet airport
CM writes to Centre; considers hosting air shows. Hyderabad, July 9 The Andhra Pradesh Government is seriously considering utilising the Begumpet Airport, which was closed for Civil Aviation Operations since midnight of March 23 for ...

SHIPPING: 12 major ports record 8.8% rise in throughput in first quarter
In the first quarter of the current fiscal (April to June 2008-09), the traffic throughput in 12 major ports posted 8.8 per cent growth at 133.88 million tonnes (mt) compared with 122.99 mt in the corresponding period of ...

SHIPPING: Kochi port plans ‘RO-RO’ service for container movement
Kochi, July 9 The Cochin Port Trust is planning to introduce a RO-RO (Roll On Roll Off) service between Willingdon and Vallarpadam Islands for the movement of containers to be exported once the International Container Transhipment Terminal at ...

SHIPPING: Mundra SEZ: Adani group can go ahead with construction work
SC allows withdrawal of PIL against Adanis. New Delhi/Ahmedabad, July 9 The Adani Group can now go ahead with the construction work in multi-product Mundra SEZ with the Supreme Court vacating its earlier interim stay on further construction ...

AIRLINES: PM approves 8-member panel to look into domestic airlines crisis
New Delhi, July 9 The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has approved the setting up of an eight member committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary to examine various issues relating to the financial crises being faced by the domestic airline ...

IMPACT
SHIPPING: Mundra Port soars on dismissal of petition
Supreme Court allows SEZ construction. The stock of Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone hit the upper circuit limit on Wednesday and closed at Rs 554 after the Supreme Court dismissed a petition that sought stoppage of construction activity ...

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