The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, September 24, 2008

LOGISTICS

ROADWAYS: Competition-limiting clause discarded for highway projects
Respite likely for domestic highway developers. In what could be seen as a move to quash anti-competitive measures, the Finance Ministry has decided to delete the controversial clause that limits the number of financial bidders to five or six ...

RAILWAYS: Domestic loading of iron ore increases in SW Railway
Rise in demand from steel companies in the region. Mangalore, Sept. 23 The decrease in the export loading of iron ore cargo in South Western Railway (SWR) zone seems to have helped the domestic sector with the domestic loading showing a strong ...

RAILWAYS: AP Govt, Delhi Metro agree to terminate deal
Rs 12,132-cr Hyderabad Metro Rail Project. Hyderabad, Sept. 23 The Andhra Pradesh Government and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (DMRC) have decided to mutually part ways in the ambitious Rs 12,132-crore Hyderabad Metro Rail ...

ACCIDENTS: 4 workers injured in naval dockyard
Four workers were injured in an accident in the shipbuilding centre of the naval dockyard here on Tuesday. They suffered burn injuries when they were engaged in welding, it is learnt. They were taken to a private hospital and are still ...

AIRLINES: Airlines told to collect user development fee
New Delhi, Sept. 23 Domestic air travellers departing from Hyderabad and Bangalore airports will no longer have to stand in line to pay the user development fee (UDF) that the two new airports are allowed ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Real estate biggies eye Mumbai’s rail land project
Want re-look at reserve price fixed at Rs 4,600 cr. New Delhi, Sept. 23 Real estate companies appear to be eyeing the commercial development on 45,371 sq. metres of railway land in Mumbai’s Western Express highway at ...

TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS: Flash strike hits container movement at Kochi
Kochi, Sept. 23 Movement of containers to and from the Kochi Port came to a standstill since Monday night following a flash strike by private container trailer workers after clashes with the CISF ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: CSL floats three platform supply ships
Kochi, Sept. 23 Cochin Shipyard Ltd on Tuesday launched more than one ship at a time, which comprises three platform supply ...