The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, April 09, 2003

Ethiopian Airlines starts Mumbai-Beijing service
SMALLER airlines are able to weather adverse situations such as war and disease outbreaks better than large airlines, according to Mr Ayenew Alemneh, Regional Director, Ethiopian Airlines, for India and South-East Asia. The larger airlines ... More

SHIPPING

New norms soon for pvt sector in major ports
"The aim is to streamline and clarify issues raised by the private players on the basis of experience gained in the past to infuse transparency in the policy of private participation in the major ports sector," Shipping Ministry sources said. More

Nalco mulls fourth port for aluminium shipment
NATIONAL Aluminium Company (Nalco), the Orissa-based public sector aluminium giant, is examining if a fourth port can be added to its shipment schedule to facilitate the export of aluminium metals in containers. A marketing team from Nalco ... More

Mumbai Port traffic up
A SLEW of measures aimed at improving productivity and integrating cargo handling operations has helped Mumbai Port to stem the decline in throughput. The port handled a cargo throughput of 26.75 million tonnes (mt) in the just ended fiscal, ... More

DISINVESTMENT

3 companies keen to acquire stake in Bharat Wagon
THREE companies have submitted expressions of interest (EoI) for acquiring a stake in Bharat Wagon & Engineering Company Ltd (BWEL). Bharat Bhari Udyog Nigam Ltd (BBUNL), the holding company for BWEL, had invited the EoI for disinvesting 74 per ... More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

`Limited mobility' hits Kovai air cargo complex
Only around 30 per cent of the castings exported from Coimbatore gets through the Coimbatore air-cargo complex, with the remaining larger chunk of these shipments are moved by road to Chennai and of late to Kochi airports. More

ROADWAYS

`Indian roads shield industrial economy'
INDIAN roads may mean a bumpy ride for motorists. But for the country's industrial economy, the road sector has become a protective shield against possible threat of a downturn as an upshot of Gulf War II. Indeed, going by the latest Crisil ... More

ADB okays $0.5 m grant for road projects in three States
The 3,300-km East-West corridor is one of the three key highways the Government has earmarked for a radical $13-billion upgradation programme to be completed by 2007. More

Chennai transporters to insist on transit insurance — Not to accept goods sans cover from May 1
THE Chennai Goods Transport Association (CGTA) members will not accept consignment from any of its customers (big or small) from May 1 without adequate transit insurance cover for the goods carried by them. The association is also making ... More

Road user satisfaction survey soon in Kerala

Ships in Ports

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