The Hindu Business Line : Monday, November 24, 2008

LOGISTICS

HUMAN RESOURCES: Jet Airways to cut salaries by 5-25%
Move covers staff drawing over Rs 75,000/month. Mumbai, Nov. 23 Jet Airways proposes to cut salaries of its staff by 5-25 per cent, airline sources said on ...

INTERVIEW: ‘We can overcome the present crisis and achieve our target’
, a 1973 batch officer of the Indian Railways Traffic Service, took over as the General Manager of East Coast Railway (ECoR) in December 2007. In an interview to Business Line recently at his office in Bhubaneswar, Mr Goyal ...

OUTLOOK: Mangalore’s new airport terminal will increase area’s business potential
The beginning of 2009 is likely to provide another facility to the civil aviation infrastructure Mangalore. The new integrated terminal building, being built at Kenjar, near the city, is likely to become operational in the first quarter of ...

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: Slowdown: Customs agents feel the pinch
A Delhi-based Customs house agent recently received a communiqué seeking a 35 per cent reduction in clearing charges from one of its large customers — a multinational company that manufactures horns and central locking devices here ...

NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY: How to make the bio-fuels transition
If India has to achieve a 20 per cent bio-diesel blend (B20) by 2020, 38 million hectares of wasteland would have to be cultivated, and the current yield of 1 to 2 tonnes per hectare would have to increase to 5 tonnes per hectare, says a ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: SBI is official banker, IOC partner for Volvo Race
Kochi, Nov. 23 As Kochi Port is all set to receive the world’s fastest racing yachts, State Bank of India and Indian Oil Corporation have joined the Volvo Ocean Race India stopover team as official banker and ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: Liverpool pitches for Indian trade
At a meeting with India’s High Commissioner to the UK recently at Liverpool, local shippers drew his attention to Port of Liverpool’s competitive edge for India, according to Exim News Service of Liverpool. Several prominent ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: Strings to connect Asia, US
France’s CMA CGM and Denmark’s Maersk Line, through a new vessel sharing agreement, have decided to launch from May 2009 two joint strings linking Asia and the US east and west coasts. The first string, known as the Columbus Loop, ...

AIR CARGO: Security cover for cargo to US
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will turn its attention to strict security for international inbound cargo as it moves to implement 100 per cent piece level screening of cargo transported on passenger aircraft, says the ...

RAILWAYS: Railways rakes in from coal demand
Major coal loading zonal railways have not been hit hard by the slowdown in the economy. The reason: steady demand for coal by power houses. Take the case of East Central Railway. Coal accounts for nearly 95 per cent of its traffic throughput. ...

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