The Hindu Business Line : Monday, May 04, 2009

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INFRASTRUCTURE: The strategic East-West gas pipeline
After the first major inland cross-country Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur (HVJ) gas pipeline network was executed and commissioned by GAIL (India) Ltd in 1987, the east-west pipeline is the next single largest project undertaken in ...

INTERVIEW: Troubled train to the North-East
joined Indian Railways in 1972 as a mechanical engineer on completion of training at the Indian Railway Institute of Mechanical & Electrical Engineers, Jamalpur. After serving various zonal railways, Railway Board, Rail ...

TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS: Port staff defer strike till May 11 meeting
Chief Labour Commissioner to meet union officials in Delhi. Kochi, May 3 The Kochi Thuramugha Samrakhana Samithy, a forum of trade unions formed to protect the interests of the Kochi Port, has decided to postpone the strike planned from May 4 to ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: Karaikal port: Viability hinges on connectivity
When the massive Beluga Fanfare unloaded its cargo — two 400-tonne Liebherr cranes — and put them on the newly-built concrete quay at Karaikal last month, it marked a renaissance of the region’s ...

TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS: Strike wave hits Kochi port
Disruption of operations at Kochi port on account of wildcat strikes seems to have become the order of the day. The port lost a total of 21 man days in the past four ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: ‘Kochi Port needs financial discipline to tackle eroding revenues’
Kochi, May 3 The Cochin Port Trust is badly in need of urgent measures in ensuring strict financial discipline at all levels, if it wants to counter the present crisis of eroding revenues, the Port Trust Chairman, Mr N. Ramachandran, ...

ROADWAYS: Highway builders oppose stricter norms proposed by Ministry
New Delhi, May 3 National Highways Builders Federation (NHBF), the highway developers lobby body, has written to the Road Ministry against the Government’s proposed move to get some road contractors enter into more stringent agreements ...

ROADWAYS: Whose toll is it anyway?
Toll bridges and toll roads have been a constant source of irritation to vehicle operators. Long before National Highway Authority of India had slapped toll charges, now known as road user charges, on the new National Highways constructed ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: Facelift plans for Tuticorin port
Reports have it that a container feeder service has been launched connecting Tuticorin port on the east coast with Mundra and Kochi ports on the west. This will certainly boost the container handling of Tuticorin port. There is a proposal ...

SHIPPING/PORTS: Cruise ships: Armed against pirates
That most cruise ships have armed guards on board is an open secret. Only now do we have confirmation of it. The armed personnel on board the cruise ship MSC Melody returned fire on Somali pirates near Seychelles recently. This is not the first ...

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