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DP
World Chennai inducts 4 RTGs at Chennai terminal
DP World Chennai, part of the Dubai-based DP World,
has inducted four new Rubber Tyre Gantry (RTGs) at the
Chennai container terminal. The new RTGs costing Rs
38 crore was procured from Gulf Port Cranes, Abu Dhabi.
Mr Ennarasu Karnuesan, CEO, DP World Chennai, said the
terminal is gearing up to handle around 1.30 million
TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units) this calendar year.
The new RTGs will ensure that the trailers and vessels
are turned around in the quickest possible time. The
terminal already has a fleet of 24 RTGs, including some
older ones. Vertically, the new equipment is capable
of reaching a stacking high of six containers.
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Cooking
oils import nearly trebles in Feb 2008
A
tendency to buy more in order to hedge against sharp
rise in prices led to cooking oil imports almost trebling
during February. According to the Solvent Extractors
Association of India (SEA), edible oil imports increased
to 4.31 lakh tonnes (lt) against 1.51 lt during the
same period a year ago.
The rise in edible oil imports when prices were ruling
high in the global markets has also caught the industry
by surprise.
China
Eastern Airlines to enhance frequency on Delhi Sector
China
Eastern Airlines has announced the commencement of its
fifth flight out of Delhi. The new flight will commence,
with effect from April 6, 2008. The announcement of
the new flight is reflective of the significant growth
in passenger traffic from Delhi to Beijing, the capital
city of China as well as Shanghai – a city widely
regarded as the citadel of China's modern economy. For
customers, the new flight reinforces the need to have
convenient travel options that can save them time and
effort.
Export
of Iron Ore exceeds domestic Consumption in 2006-07
During the year 2006-07, domestic steel industry consumed
about 68.504 million tonne of iron ore (Estimated),
whereas 93.79 million tonne of iron ore was exported
(Provisional). Government has been receiving pleas from
some sectors especially steel manufacturers for regulating
the export of iron ore.
Government
of India has imposed an export duty of Rs. 300/- per
tonne on export of all varieties of Lumps and on export
of iron ore fines having Fe content more than 62%. Export
duty of Rs. 50/- per tonne has been imposed on iron
ore fines having Fe content 62% and below. This information
was given by the Minister of State for Steel, Dr. Akhilesh
Das in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
AI
launches its first Freighter service
Mumbai,
27th June 2007: At a press conference held today, Shri.
Praful Patel, Hon’ble Union Minister of State for
Civil Aviation, flagged-off Air India’s first dedicated
freighter aircraft to Europe.
The first converted aircraft (Passenger to Cargo A310)
deployed on the Europe route (Bombay/Bangalore/Damam/Frankfurt/Damam/Bombay),
has begun operations from today. The freighter A 310
aircraft will make four trips in a week via Bangalore
and Chennai to Frankfurt and Paris.
Speaking at the occasion, Hon’ble Union Minister
of State for Civil Aviation, Shri. Praful Patel said,
“This is a major milestone achieved not only in
Air India’s history, but also in the history of
Indian civil aviation. Cargo is one of the key components
of the nation’s economic growth. Our vision is
to
make Air India a preferred cargo carrier in the year’s
to come, and to this end I assure that the government
will provide its full support.”
Air India’s current market share in the export
segment is in the range of 9-11% and 5-7% in the import
segment. Owing to the upsurge in the import-export demand
coined with the Open Sky Policy and globalization factors,
Air India has decided to ramp-up cargo operations.
Addressing the media on the occasion of the launch,
Chairman and Managing Director, Air India,
Mr.V.Thulasidas said, “Post the merger, the cargo
is going to be one of the most important strategic business
units for Air India. Our vision is to see a full fledged
Air India cargo airline and I thank each and every employee
of Air India cargo who has worked hard to shape this
dream into reality.”
Monsoon
Situation prevailing at Colombo
Owing
to monsoonic weather conditions prevailing in Colombo
for the last 4 Days, Feeder Vessels are facing severe
berthing / sailing delay. This inturn has created a
vacuum in Chennai. Also, the Colombo port productivity,
with regard to mother vessels has come down & in
some cases
Mother vessels have decided to skip Colombo, in order
to maintain their schedule.This situation is expected
to persist till end of next week.
As
a result, shipment transhipping at Colombo are delayed.
JET-SAHARA
DEAL
India's
Jet Airways has acquired Air Sahara and christened it
as "Jetlite". This is the second merger in
the country's aviation industry after the two state
owned carriers Indian Airlines and Air India annonced
their meger recently and will be re-named as "Air
India"
Jet Airways also planning an international expansion
by adding 20 wide bodied aircrafts and start daily services
to New York via Brussels from August 2007. Service to
San Francisco (via Shanghai) will be starting from the
year end.
Brussels will the European hub for Jet Airways.
AIR
MAURITIUS TO FLY TO BANGALORE
Bangalore
will be the next destination in India for Air Mauritius
which is already flying to Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai.
Mauritius-Bangalore direct flight will be launched from
Mid of 2008.
DAL
SERVICE FROM INDIA
DAL
Deutsche Afrika-Linien, the Hamburg-based shipping line
has entered the Indian market with a premium product
as part of the NEMO service to Europe. DAL will participate
as a vessel operator in the service, under a vessel
sharing agreement with CMA CGM.
DAL will start with Chennai. A direct main line service
from Chennai to the ports of Djibouti, Jeddah, Damietta,
La Spezia, Tilbury, Hamburg, Rotterdam and Le Havre.
This service will bring relief to the Chennai export
trade from the uncertainty of rollovers and shut outs
of cargo at transhipment ports.
In
addition to the direct ports of call, DAL will also
cover other European and African destinations.
PAK
SHIPS CALLING INDIAN PORT
Pakistan
ships have started calling at Indian ports after over
30 years. The tanker m.v. Lalazar recently discharged
92,000 tonnes of crude at New Mangalore Port, while
another vessel m.v. Bolan discharged general cargo at
Bedi port in Gujarat. This follows the signing of the
amended shipping protocol between the two countries.
ETIHAD
DOUBLES INDIA FLIGHTS
UAE's
national carrier Etihad Airways is all set to expand
its services to Indiaby launching two new destinations
- Kochi & Thiruvananthapuram. The flight will begin
from Abu Dhabi to Thiruvananthapuram on May 31st and
to Kochi by June 31. Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi joins
Etihad's services after Mumbai and Delhi. Etihad operates
freighter flights to Chennai already.
DOHA-CHENNAI-DOHA
DAILY SERVICE BY QR
Qatar
Airways has launched its daily Doha-Chennai-Doha PAX
service as part of its expansion programme comprising
new routes and enhancing frequencies to India. The Airline
has already serving Chennai with its Freighter service.
Chennai is the sixth destination for the airline which
already operates to Delhi Hyderabad, Mumbai, Trivandrum
and Cochin. The Airline is looing to start operations
from Nagpur Airport.
ETIHAD'S
TRIVANDRUM SERVICE
UAE
Based Etihad will be commencing its PAX operation from
Abu Dhabi to Trivandrum and
Cochin. The tri-weekly Trivandrum service will be started
from May 31st while Cochin frequency will be four days
and will be from June 3rd.
Etihad has already service Delhi and Mumbai thru PAX
and Freighter while Chennai is connected with Freighter
service only.
AIR
INDIA EXPRESS
The
Air India Express, a subsidiary of Air India, launched
direct PAX flights from Tiruchy to Dubai and Singapore.
Flights would be operated from Tiruchy to both destinations
on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
AIR
ARABIA WILL FLY TO AHMEDABAD
The
first low-fare airline in the Middle East, Air Arabia
will be starting daily flights to Ahmedabad from April
2007. Ahmedabad has one of the major industrial towns
in the North-West.
MUNDRA
PORT ADDS HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE
Mundra
Port and SEZ Ltd and Sterling Add Life have sighned
a memorandum of understanding for
developing healthcare-related infrastructure at all
sector Special Economic Zones (SEZ) which
has a seport as well as an airport.
CMA-CGM's
"Vasco Express" started Service
CMA-CGM
has started a new service called "Vasco Express
Service" linking South America with India, Gulf,
Read Sea and South Africa.
The weekly service with 8 vessels will connect Rio-de-Janerio,
Santos, Paranagua, Itajai, Rio Grande, Salalah, Khorfakkan,
NHAVA SHEVA, Port Louis, Durban and back Rio-de-Janerio.
Transit time will be 20 days between Rio and Khorfakkan.
The Vessels will have 1700 TEU and a reefer capacity
of 350 Plugs. With this service, CMA-CGM can meet the
growing market demand for refrigerated containers.
Mumbai
to get its second airport
The
Government has proposed a second airport in Mumbai which
would come up by 2012.
The new airport will have a capacity to handle aprox
55 million passengers annually. The International Civil
Aviation Organisation (ICAO) had already said to have
given techno-feasibility clearance to the Navi Mumbai
airport.
Nagpur
Airport
Singapore-based
Changi airport is going to be the consultant for developming
an International Cargo Hub and Airport Project (MIHAN)
in Nagpur - Near Mumbai. The MIHAN project will include
an airport, a SEZ and a rail and road terminal
The Maharashtra Airport Development Company Ltd (MADC)
which is developing MIHAN project recently signed an
MoU with Changi Airport authorities. Once fully developed,
the airport will have space for 50 aircraft and 50 more
on the fringe areas.
The airport will have a maintenance repairs and overhaul
(MRO) base for which the MADC has signed a MoU with
Boeing, which will be setting up their MRO for South
Asia at Nagpur with investment of $100 million.
FREIGHTER'S
FOR AIR INDIA
Air
India is planning to have freighter service ex Mumbai,
Bangalore and Chennai in the near future with two A310
aircrafts. Air India is also looking to convert its
eight A310 aircrafts and five B737-200 aircrafts into
freighter. More over the airline is planning to lease
some more aircrafts for cargo opertions.
The carrier has taken around six acres of land near
New Bangalore International Airport to facilitate more
services from Bangalore to the West.
Gulf
Air's New Cargo Connection
Gulf
Air Cargo will be operating chartered flights on Bahrain-Chennai-Bangalore-Amsterdam
sector
for a 3 month period temporerly and later it will be
reviewed. The airline will operate an Airbus A-300
aircraft with a capacity of 40 tonnes twise a week.
DP
WORLD BRINGS IDX SERVICE TO COCHIN PORT
Cochin
Port has added another International Service called
IDX which connects India with US East Coast on every
week from 06th Jan 2007.
The Port rotation will be Colombo-Tuticorin-Cochin-Nhava
Sheva-Mundra-Barcelona-New York-Norfolk-Charleston.
There will be eight vessels plying around with 2800
TEU capacity. This will be operated by a consotium consisting
of Zim, SCI, Emirates, OOCL and Italia Maritima.
REVISED
SHIPPING PROTOCOL FOR INDIA & PAKISTAN
India
and Pakistan have signed a revised shipping protocol
to allow flagships of both countries to carry third
country cargo from each others ports.
Revised protocol has been signed by shipping ministers
of the two countries in New Delhi on 14/12/06. The revised
shipping protocol between India and Pakistan will allow
lifting of cargo between the two countries by third
country vessels as well as lifting of third country
cargo by India and Pakistani flag vessels from each
others’ ports,” according to a government
official. This is expected to enhance tonnage under
both the flags and also result in competitive shipping
rates.
QATAR
AIRWAYS TO FLY PAX TO CHENNAI (MAA) & AHMEDABAD
(AMD)
Qatar
Airways announced expansion of its services to India
by adding Chennai and Ahmedabad from March-April next
year to five Indian cities from where it operates and
raising frequencies on some existing routes by almost
60 per cent.
From
our existing 30 frequencies each week, we are now operating
42 frequencies till January 31. This will go up to 49
from next summer", airline CEO Akbar al Baker told
reporters here. He also announced plans to introduce
a passenger service to Nagpur from the middle of 2007
and a twice-weekly freighter service around the same
time.
Baker
said the plans from Doha to Nagpur, where it was supposed
to launch flights from this year, were delayed due to
delay in supplies of aircraft. Airbus A-321s would be
operating on these routes.
QR
is already flying freighters to Chennai and the PAX
service will increase cargo capacity
CORPORATES
KEEN TO ENTER PORT SECTOIR
INDIA
Inc - an even larger number of reputed companies in
India have evinced interest in developing the existing
ports.
Adani
group, GVK Industries ABG Shipyard, Larsen & Toubro,
Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation, IL&FS, Sanghi
group, Container Corporation of India, Continental Warehousing
Corporation, Nirma group and Sterling Biotech Limited
just to name a few are eyeing for the six existing ports
that Gujarat government wants to upgrade with private
participation.
Adanis
want to develop Porbander and Navlakhi, GVK has shown
interest in all six projects. ABG has set its eyes on
Magdalla, IL&FS keen on Dahej, Magdalla and Navlakhi.
Apart
from above companies, players such as Zoom Realty Projects,
Navyug Engineering, Sanex International, Arya Offshore
Services, Mangaldas Kapadia & Sons and United Shippers
amongst others too have submitted EoIs for one or the
other port.
Increase
in Export of Black Pepper to USA
There
is an increase of 80.12 percent in Exports of Black
pepper to the USA for the period of January to Septermer
2006. A Subsidy scheme introducd in November 2005 helped
the boost of exports. An Ocean freight subsidy was also
given.
Production
and Export is Booming
Production
of almost all commodities is booming in India which
is resulting a steady growth in Air Export. Government
is expecting around 10 percent annual gains over next
10 years time.
Carriers like Lufthansa Cargo, Air France, Cathay Pacific,
Korean Air are incresing their cago lifting capacity
often. More new sectors are covered with direct flights.
Airports modernisation works are being done at major
airports line Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai and new airports
are coming up in Bangalore and Hyderabad.
Mainline
Vessel from Cochin
Emirates
Shipping Line has started it's direct Mainline Vessel
from Cochin to Gulf and mainline China to boost direct
trade in between these sectors. The mainline service
with average 3000 TEU carrying capacity will be calling
at Cochin port twice a week.
Air
France Started Direct Flights to Chennai
Air
France which is currently operating to Mumbai, Delhi
and Bangalore added Chennai for their passenger traffic
from OCT 31’ 2006. This has also increased cargo
capacity of the carrier which is already having freighter
service ex Chennai. AF has a plan to increase the services
to five times a week from 2007 Summer Season.
Coir
Industry in Tamil Nadu
The
State Coir Board is planning to set up an industrial
park for producing geo-textile based products in Pollachi,
in Western Tamil Nadu. Infrastructure and eco-friendliness
gaining momentaum, the demand for geo-textiles is on
the rise. With a good export market, industry plans
for more value added products sucha as ice cream cups
mde out of coconut shells, floral baskets and home decor
items for export and domestic market as well with grants
of excise duty exemption for manufacturing of coir composite
boards, coir matting boards and coir boards.
Air
France expansion
Air
France which is currently operating to Mumbai, Delhi
and Bangalore is adding Chennai for their passenger
traffic. This will gift three flights to Chennai from
OCT 31’ 2006. AF has a plan to increase the services
to five times a week from 2007 Summer Season.The Carrier
will increase it’s flights from 5 to 7 a week from
Bangalore and also more seats from Mumbai.
Strike
at ICD Delhi has been called off on 9th Ocotber'06.
STRIKE
AT ICD, TUGLAKABAD, DELHI
A
strike has been called by Customs Brokers due death
of a 35 year old Customs broker at ICD, Delhi by an
accident inside the ICD. All operational activities
comes to a stadstill in the ICD for last 36
hours.
All
agencies operating from ICD TKD (Surveyors, Transporters
CHA's and Customs) are on strike for indefinite period.
As
per the recent information received there is no working
at ICD TKD, resulting in non movement of loaded export
containers for railment, empty reposition to other ICDs
and vice versa for imports.
FIRST
MAINLINE VESSEL AT COCHIN PORT
M.v Ville De Mars, the first main line container vessel
arrived at Cochin Port on 15th Sep 06 which was a mile
stone for the Cochin Port. This is the first time a
Mother Vessel arrived at Cochin port giving a major
boost to the Port's efforts to become a gateway to the
India.
Cochin Port has recently achieved "Deep Draft Port"
enabling bigger vessel to take berth and the arrival
of M.v. Ville De Mars is the first response to the promotional
efforts made by the Cochin Port.
The operation of mainline vessels from Cochin can save
time and money to the Exporters and Importers from the
entire Kerala and major Industrial towns of Tamil Nadu
such as Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Karur, Pollachi, Erodu
etc.
Currently transshipments are done at Colombo, Dubai
& Singapore ports which cause time and money to
the exporters. When the Vallarpadam International Container
Terminal become operational, Cochin will be the hub
in India for transhipment.
Rail
Freight Corridor Project
The Central Government of India has approved setting
up a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for the execution
of dedicated Rail Freight Corridor Project. The SPV
will be under the Railway Ministry.
Function of SPV will be setting up a dedicated freight
corridor including those connecting other legs of the
Golden Quadrilaterial and its diagonals. The SPV will
execute the project that envisages building rail links
along the Golden Quadrilateral routes. The freight corridor
will run parallel to the existing railway lines connecting
Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkatta.
TAMIL
NADU ALLOWS MOLASSES EXPORTS
Tamil Nadu has allowed export of Molasses after 5 years
of gap. This is due to the mill-wise quote granted by
the Govt. of Tamil Nadu. There will be an export of
1.13 lakh tonnes of molasses by private mills and Co-operative
sector mills export 51,000 tonnes.
AIR SAHARA ADDING CHINA IN
IT'S MAP
Air
Sahara , India 's leading domestic and international
airline, today announced its mega expansion plans in
the domestic and international sector.
The
airline will be adding 66 new Flights and 14 new destinations
to its network within next four months thus creating
aviation history in the country. It is the first time
in the country that a private airline is introducing
international flights to Dhaka , Guangzhou ( China ),
Male ( Maldives ) and a direct daily flight from Delhi
to Columbo.
With
this expansion, now Delhi (DEL) would be connected to
six international destinations, in addition to its code-share
flights with American Airlines (AA) serving all USA
on American Airline’s Chicago Hub. With the expansion
in domestic flights, Air Sahara will now service 27
domestic destinations from Delhi , which incidentally
is the highest number of destinations served from the
city by any private airline in India .
(Source
www.airsahara.net)
Air
India to fly with Star Alliance
Star
Alliance, world’s largest airline group, currently
runs 16,930 daily flights to 842 airports in 152 countries
around the world will have another addition - Air India.
This will give a boost to the Indian aviation. Air India
already has an expansion plan by inducting more aircrafts
in his family.
According
to sources, the major benefits of the alliance for Air
India would be a partnership with member airlines on
issues like marketing and joint sourcing of spares and
fuel which will lead to a huge saving of millions of
dollars.
Air
France expansion
Air
France which is currently operating to Mumbai, Delhi
and Bangalore is adding Chennai for their passenger
traffic. This will gift three flights to Chennai from
OCT 31’ 2006. AF has a plan to increase the services
to five times a week from 2007 Summer Season.The Carrier
will increase it’s flights from 5 to 7 a week from
Bangalore and also more seats from Mumbai.
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