The Hindu Business Line : Monday, April 06, 2009

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INTERVIEW: ‘We are taking elaborate environment protection measures’
Dhamra port, being developed in Orissa by a joint venture company, The Dhamra Port Company Ltd, floated by Tata Steel and Larsen & Toubro, has been the centre of controversy, with environmentalists expressing concern over ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: Box ships idling
With box ship charter rates having plummeted to new lows, the number of jobless chartered box ships is increasing, according to shipping industry sources. The carriers are believed to be returning a record number of ships to their owners as ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: Container hub on Mangalore horizon
A steady increase in container throughput (an estimated 33 per cent growth at 28,500 TEUs in 2008-09 over about 9,000 TEUs in 2007-08) has set the authorities of New Mangalore Port Trust mulling construction of a state-of-the-art container ...

RAILWAYS: Surge in Paradip rail traffic
East Coast Railway (ECoR) is happy that the rail-borne traffic to and from Paradip port is showing an upward trend. The happiness is not merely because the ECoR is getting additional traffic but also because it has contributed to a ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: Divided over freight rate
Scrapping of old ships, according to many, is the answer to the present problem of over-capacity in shipping and the consequent rock-bottom freight rates. But the recipe many not have many takers for more than one reason. First, what should be ...

AIRLINES: Flying fair every step of the way
Flying could soon become a more comfortable and cheaper experience for passengers with disability or reduced ...

AIRLINES: Mangalore airport posts Rs 7.5-cr profit
Mangalore, April 5 Mangalore airport, a major non-metro airport in Karnataka, has made an operating profit of Rs 7.5 crore during 2008-09 as against the operating profit of Rs 8.61 crore for ...

RAILWAYS: Connecting India from every corner
The two sanctioned Dedicated Freight Corridors are only a part of a larger plan of building a quadrilateral of railway lines connecting the country’s four metro cities. The traffic between Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai is ...

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