Kolkata Port Trust operational surplus at Rs 603 cr in FY16

May 2016

Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) has announced a 28.58 per cent rise in operational surplus at Rs.603.65 crore for 2015-16. ...

Tags: Kolkata Port Trust, KoPT, M T Krishna Babu

Railway on Overdrive

May 2016

While all the pressure to build a railway network in India in the mid-nineteenth century came from London, it is well into the 21st century that pres...

Tags: Railway, Great Depression, Passengers, British-India Railways, SNCF, French National Railway, Kolkata Metro, Gatimaan Express, Trans-Siberian Railway, Liberalisation, ICF, RCF, Linke Hoffmann-Busch, Vulcans, CLW

We have constructed almost half of all the new lines that were laid last year

May 2016

There are basically two kinds of projects. One is the greenfield projects where we are going to construct an absolutely new line. The other type is w...

Tags: Mukul Jain, Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd, Solar energy, Water harvesting, Rishikesh, Karanprayag, Kolkata Metro, Vivekananda flyover, Railway, Pamban bridge, Clover Bridge, RDSO, Infrastructure, Safety, Construction

Schindler will continue to grow at a rate faster than the market.

April 2016

We move over 1 billion people per day,¨ claims the company with pride. Indeed, founded in 1874 in Switzerland, Schindler manufacturers, installs, ser...

Tags: Antony Parokaran, Schindler India, Elevator, Bombay Stock Exchange, Housing for All, Housing Projects, MRL, Escalators, Mumbai International Airport T2, Chennai Airport, Kolkata Airport, Mumbai Metro, Mumbai Monorail, Commercial, Retail Projects

Ace of Ports

April 2016

Whether it is the economic scenario or weak infrastructure spending, ITD Cementation has overcome every challenge and now views the ports sector as s...

Tags: Infrastructure, ITD Cementation India Ltd, Adun Saraban, Mumbai Metro, Udangudi Power Project, Italian-Thai Development Public Company Ltd, Construction, Marine Works, Highways, Bridges, Metros, Airports, Hydro-Tunnelling, Dams, S Ramnath

AI's Dreamliner woes continue

April 2016

Air India's Dreamliner woes continued with a technical problem forcing the carrier to ground another one of its planes in Paris in late March. Meanwh...

Tags: Air India Dreamliner, US aircraft maker, Kolkata-Delhi fight hitting

Cargo traffic up 3.36%: Official

March 2016

Buoyed by pick up in demand, India´s 12 major ports saw cargo traffic increase by 3.36 per cent to 499.23 mt in the first 10 months of the current fi...

Tags: PTI, Shipping Ministry, Kolkata Port, Commodity-wise, Coal, Fertiliser, JNPT

Oceans of Opportunity

February 2016

Construction, engineering and technology opportunities abound, perhaps more than there are takers for, unless some policies change. Opportunities in ...

Tags: Construction, Engineering, Technology, Port Development, Sameer Bhatnagar, KPMG, Uthpala Suvarna, Suretech Infrastructure Pvt Ltd, Greenfield Projects, Adani Ports, Special Economic Zone Ltd, Manish R Sharma, PwC India, Panamax, Sunil Kalra