The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, April 19, 2003

SCI gets Rs 196 cr from SBI to acquire tanker
SHIPPING Corporation of India (SCI) has borrowed Rs 196 crore from the State Bank of India (SBI) to part fund the acquisition of a LR II tanker from South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd. The 1,46,860-dwt tanker will ... More

New Mangalore Port draws up plan to combat SARS
WITH the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus having arrived in Goa, New Mangalore Port has chalked out an action plan to combat the spread of the disease. According to a statement issued here by the Chief Medical Officer and Port ... More

10% freight subsidy mooted to bolster shipping cos
Informed sources told Business Line that under the proposed 10 per cent freight subsidy scheme, Indian shipping companies would be given priority for carrying all Government and PSU cargoes even if they charged 10 per cent more freight than th e foreign companies. More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Tirupur Container offers bonded warehousing
THE Tirupur Container Terminals Pvt Ltd (TCTPL), the private inland container depot operators in this hosiery town is to offer bonded warehousing facility. The added facility is being thrown open for the benefit of the garment industry of ... More

EVENTS

Transport workers' convention

ROADWAYS

Supply lines stay hit as stir continues
THE nation-wide indefinite strike called by the transporters entered the fifth day on Friday with no signs of a breakthrough in sight to end the stir. The strike has hit the supply of essential commodities and consumers are burdened by the ... More

Kerala Govt steps in to prevent price spiral
THE State Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, Mr G. Karthikeyan, has said that the Government is fully geared to prevent vegetable prices from shooting through the roof even as the lorry strike entered the fifth day on Friday. As part of the ... More

Traders want Govt to intervene — Fruits, vegetables prices on the rise
FRUIT and vegetable prices continue to spiral upwards in Chennai with the truckers' strike entering the fifth day. Traders felt that the Tamil Nadu Government could declare fruits and vegetables as essential commodities and ensure their supply as ... More

Sugar, fertiliser industries most affected by strike
WITH the truckers strike entering the fifth day today, fertiliser and sugar industries were among those adversely affected in Tamil Nadu, according to industry sources. The sugar mills have been hit by raw material constraints with sugarcane ... More

Dhumal seeks Naidu's good offices to end stir
THE President of the All-India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC), Mr B.N. Dhumal, has reiterated that the nation-wide truckers' strike, which entered the fifth day on Friday, would continue until the Union Government yielded to their 10-point ... More

Lorry stir leaves porters in lurch
THE truckers' stir has rendered head-load workers in the Mettupalayam vegetable mundy jobless. With the strike entering the fifth day, these labourers numbering over a 1,000 seem to wait endlessly for loads to arrive and when it does, there is ... More

Truckers' stir to hit Kerala hard
IF the truck operators' strike continued for long, it would hit Kerala severely as the State depends heavily on other States for essential commodities such as pulses, cereals and vegetables. More than 50 per cent of the State's requirement of ... More

Ships in Ports

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