The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, March 27, 2003

Malaysian Airlines to have more links
Under its expansion plans, the airline is also keen to increase the frequencies to its existing destinations, namely Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, according to the Regional Manager, South Asia, Mr Syed Abdillah Aziz. Earlier this year, ... More

Northwest resumes daily flights
The Dutch airlines, KLM on Wednesday announced that its alliance partner, Northwest Airlines, has resumed its daily flights from Mumbai to Amsterdam from March 26. In a statement, the airline has said that it had earlier cancelled its flights ... More

Indian carriers may cut fares on Kuwait route
A COMBINATION of the situation in Kuwait returning to near normalcy and slackening demand for tickets from and to India may force the State-owned Indian carriers to slash the existing fares on these routes. Addressing a press conference, the ... More

IA flights schedule advanced
MANGALORE: Effective March 30 Indian Airlines has advanced the departure time of their Mangalore-Mumbai flights. Flight CD7179 will depart from Mumbai at 1230 hours and arrive at Mangalore at 1345 hours. Flight CD7180 will depart ... More

SHIPPING

Freight rates to US, Canada set to soar
SHIPPING freight rates from India to the US and Canada are likely to shoot up by over $1,000 per TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) and about $1,200 per FEU (forty-foot equivalent unit) from June 1. The proposed hike includes a general rate ... More

Shipping lines to pay additional war-risk premium
The additional war-risk premium surcharge imposed by the feeder operators on the shipping lines is over and above the additional war-risk premium of 0.5 per cent of the hull value of the ship levied by international underwriters from the ship owners including feeder lines for sailing into the Gulf region. More

In troubled waters
A container vessel sets sail from Kochi with export cargo. The imposition of war risk premium, in addition to freight charges, by shipping companies since Monday is likely to hit exports to the Gulf ... More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Concor move to make Balasore ICD operational — To stuff 50 boxes with calcined petroleum coke for Chennai
IN its bid to make the Balasore inland container depot (ICD) operational, Container Corporation of India (Concor) has placed a rake of 50 empties at the doors of the ICD. The empties will be stuffed with calcined petroleum coke, imported through ... More

RAILWAYS

Bid to attract more passengers — Marketing initiative for Kolkata Metro on cards
The idea behind the proposed exercise is to narrow the gap between its annual operational expenditure of Rs 90 crore and a revenue of Rs 40 crore that is generated every year. More

Ships in Ports

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