The Planning Commission wants to increase the share of cargo moved by rail to 50-60 per cent by 2018 from the current 36 per cent.
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Orissa to find transloading alt
The shipping ministry has asked the Orissa government for alternative sites to locate a transloading facility of Kolkata Port Trust.
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Major ports handle 6 pc more
Petroleum products, coking and thermal coal constituted a major chunk, 4.42 mt, of an incremental cargo handled in April.
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Rail wagon supply gap hits power
Coal India General Manager ML Gupta lamented that the “critical generation problems†in the power sector arise frequently because enough coal cannot be transported.
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Cement industry loses Rs 40 cr from bad rail infra
Cement will grow exponentially over the next 40 years, so we should be more worried about 2050 than about 2009, said Rajiv Mehta, Executive President, Ultratech Cement.
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Case study: How India's largest airport project was fast-tracked
Collaboration has not caught up in India. Fraught with lack of transparency at all levels, both public and private projects languish in needless delays.
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Dhamra's pvt rail line is R3i's first
The rail connectivity to Orissa's Dhamra port will be the first such connectivity project in the country under the Indian Railways' New Railways' Infrastructure for Industry Initiative (R3i).
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India's pvt merchant airport
The country's first private merchant airport in Karaikal is awaiting financial closure with project works slated to begin in 2012.
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Road safety policy: Diluted but a good step forward
The opportunities for the infrastructure industries, especially those in road management, training, construction and maintenance, are brewing and will soon be a major activity, as an Act is on the anvil soon to promote road safety.
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Lowly Worm
Stuxnet is the dreaded name that is responsible for sleepless nights among IT departments in infrastructure sectors across the world, including India.