According to industry sources, the recent rise in the freight rates was too less to improve the margins of shipping companies and the rates may not improve significantly in the rest of 2013. The Baltic Dry Index, which measures cost of shipping bulk commodities, has risen from an average of 745
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MP govt takes steps to implement metro rail projects
Urban Development and Administration Minister of Madhya Pradesh Babulal Gaur informed media persons that the state government was taking steps to implement metro rail projects in Bhopal and Indore. He said the state government reached the final stages in the process of inviting tenders to prepare the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the projects in
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Ministry lines up steps for shiphuilding sector
In order to promote shipbuilding industry, the union shipping ministry has lined up measures which include providing cheap loans to the firms, PK Sinha, union shipping secretary said. The shipping ministry has requested the finance ministry to give an interest subvention scheme for the shipbuilding industry as the sector grapples to attract com
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RIL shuts another well at KG D6 block, output falls
According to a latest report of the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), Reliance Industries (RIL) shut its ninth well - A1 - on the Krishna Godavari (KG)-D6 block for "reservoir build-up study. The closure of the well resulted in the gas output from the block falling to an all-time low of 15.5 million standard cubic metre per
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RIL finds another reservoir below KG-D6 basin
In a development that may increase output from Reliance Industries' (RIL) KG D6 basin, the company said it discovered another reservoir of natural gas below its existing fields in the basin. Although the company could not ascertain the potential output at the reservoir as it is still drilling in the region, some reports indicate that the new reserve could
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CAG team resumes audit of RIL’s KG-D6 operation
Following assurance from the union petroleum ministry, the officials of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) resumed audit of the KG-D6 gas field operated by Reliance Industries (RIL). Recently, the team of CAG arrived at the Mumbai officie of RIL for this purpose. The CAG received assurance from the oil ministry that the auditing team would have acce
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Essar Steel to reduce interest cost by raising dollar debt
Dilip Oomen, Managing Director and Chief Executive of Essar Steel informed media persons that the company plans to replace its rupee debt with dollar debt in order to reduce interest cost. By September 2013, the firm plans to refinance its entire domestic debt of around Rs 20,000 crore into dollar terms
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India’s natural gas import may rise
Reports indicate that India's dependence on import for natural gas may increase in the coming years because of the dwindling output from the Reliance Industries' KG D6 basin. Output at the KG-D6 basin declined to an all-time low of 17.3 million standard cubic meters per day (mmscmd) recently. Of this, about 15.2 mmscmd was suppl
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Rising cost may prompt steel firms to hike price
Rise in coking coal prices and the increase in rail freight tariff may prompt steel makers in the country to hike prices of flat and long steel products, reports indicate. The transportation cost for the steel makers rose by Rs 60 per tonne because of the hike in rail freight from this mont
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Tata Metaliks rejigs business to achieve synergy
Tata Metaliks is in the process of restructuring its pipe business in order to derive cost benefit from backward integration in a time-bound manner. As part of this initiative, the company acquired its Japanese partners Kubota Corp and Metal One in water pipes making venture Tata MetaliksKubota Pipes (TMK