The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, March 15, 2007

AIRLINES
DGCA wants airlines to scrap congestion surcharge
The Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has appealed to the airline industry to withdraw the Rs 150 congestion surcharge being levied currently. Sources told Business Line that the DGCA has appealed to the airlines to reconsider ... More

Ambiguities in Aircraft Bill: Panel
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture has expressed the view that The Aircraft (Amendment) Bill, 2006 was a "piece meal" effort on part of the Government. "A lot of ambiguities exist regarding the role of ... More

SriLankan Air banks on MICE to pull tourists in
Better connectivity, `visa on arrival' policy likely to lure more More

SHIPPING
Concor to run weekly Ernakulam, Bangalore trains
Container Corporation of India Ltd (Concor) had decided to run weekly trains between Ernakulam and Bangalore in order to maintain the stream of traffic between the Kochi port and export centres of Bangalore. The damage rendered to some pillars ... More

East Coast Rly mulls placing fewer rakes at Vizag port
East Coast Railway (ECoR), with headquarter in Bhubaneswar, is to shortly write to the Ministry of Agriculture inquiring if any more wheat vessel is to be nominated for Visakhapatnam port. This is because the vessels with imported wheat have ... More

High alert
SAFETY MEASURES: Security personnel keeping vigil at the newly inaugurated container terminal at 5 Netaji Subhash Dock in the Kolkata port. With the Indian port sector having complied with provisions of the International Ship and Port Security ... More

RAILWAYS
Rail Vikas looks to adopt competitive bidding
To choose partners for lucrative rail link projects More

Lalu to visit US B-schools
The Railway Minister, Mr Lalu Prasad, will visit US business schools including Stanford University and Harvard, in April to share the success story of Indian Railways. Mr Prasad will also visit Silicon Valley while students of the Massachusetts ... More

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