The Hindu Business Line : Monday, March 16, 2009

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AIRLINES: Marginal hike in jet fuel prices
New Delhi, March 15 State-owned oil firms have marginally hiked jet fuel prices by an average Rs 158 a kilolitre. With this move, Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) will cost Rs 27,275 a kilolitre in Delhi from Sunday midnight as against Rs ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: Maritime Board to tap potential of Karnataka’s coastline
A 300-km-long coastline, 10 minor ports and a major port are the main features of Karnataka’s maritime profile. Though a major port and a few minor ports are working on tapping the potential in their areas of activity, the potential ...

AIRLINES: Meet to focus on growth of air services
Later this month, Hyderabad will play host to representatives of airlines, airports and tourism authorities from across the world. They will be meeting to discuss the role that airports can play in the development of air ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: ‘Check frauds to attract pvt investments in infrastructure’
New Delhi, March 15 Corruption has to be checked to attract private investment into the Indian infrastructure sector, a study has ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: Tebma builds 2 survey launches for DCI
Visakhapatnam, March 15 The Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) here received two survey launches built by the Chennai-based Tebma Shipping Ltd on Sunday. The launches were built by the company at a cost of Rs 16.9 crore, with ...

AIRLINES: Aviation MRO segment poised to grow
As a support service to the aviation industry, India’s MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul) segment is estimated to grow at 10 per cent and reach $1.17 billion by 2010 and $2.6 billion by 2020, according to Changing Dynamics, a study ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: Dry future for container ships
Empty box ship tonnage continues to fill up the world’s anchorage. The number of laid-up box ships at the beginning of this month exceeded 400 for the first time. Figures from AXS-Alphaliner, the Paris-based consultancy firm, suggest that ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: Cruise calls buoy Kochi port
Reports have it that 11 cruise ships will call at Kochi port in the current month. With this, the number of cruise ships the port is expected to host in the current fiscal will be 36. True, the number falls short of 2007-08 figure of 43 ...

PIRACY: The piracy circle
How much money has been paid to Somali pirates as ransom so far? Difficult to estimate. But according to a consultant, the amount could be $80 million. The consultant has been quoted in Fairplay as saying that between the middle ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: Pipavav creates discharge record
Last week, Port Pipavav in Gujarat, the country’s first private sector port promoted by APM Terminal – the world’s largest container terminal operator belonging to the Denmark-based AP Moller Group – discharged more ...

RAILWAYS: Hubli rly division earnings up
Total earnings of the Hubli division of South Western Railway (SWR) stood at Rs 3,328.98 crore till the end of February during the current financial year as against Rs 2,709.02 crore in the corresponding period of previous fiscal, recording a ...

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