US-based freight company ABF Freight System's subsidiary U-Pack has gained the best of 2012 award on online website Kudzu.com for its unique moving solutions. Kudzu said more than five million businesses were competed across 30 ...
The total approximate earnings of Indian Railways on originating basis during 1st April to 30th November 2012 were INR 78868.17 crore compared to INR 66150.48 crore during the same period last year, registering an increase of 19.23%. The ...
Tags: Revenue Generation, Review, Indian Railways, Mineral
Every second counts Over a million twenty-foot equivalent units(TEU)of cargo go through the bustling Port of Bangkok each year.This harbour in Thailand's capital city has become a major centre of commerce in the political and economic ...
Tags: commerce afloat, upgrading and automating, securing the centre
Bloomberg reported that the Baltic Dry Index, a measure of commodity shipping costs, rose for the first time since November, lifted by gains for the largest vessels as miners sought charters to export iron ore or coal from Australia. ...
Tags: Baltic Dry Index, iron ore, coal, Iron ore miners
Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA)partners,Canada and Mexico,rose 7.9 percent in October 2012 compared to October 2011,totaling$85.3 billion,unadjusted for ...
Tags: NAFTA, Surface trade, US
Diesel Locomotive Works/Varanasi in association with Research Design and Standard Organization, Lucknow has designed a 5500 HP Diesel locomotive fort freight services with state of the art technology. This locomotive is capable of ...
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Business Standard reported that JSW Steel has increased prices by about 2% or about INR 750 per tonne across all categories for the current month. A senior JSW Steel official said that "We have increased the prices after three months. ...
Mr Darwish bin Ismaeel al Balushi minister Responsible for Financial Affairs said that Oman's ambitious National Railway System will be implemented with funding support pledged by fellow members of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Mr Al ...
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The year 2012 saw a big push for the key infrastructure projects of Railways. After a review meeting on infrastructure held by the Prime Minister in the last week of November 2012, deadline has been set for such important infrastructure ...
Tags: infrastructure projects, Railways, elevated rail corridor
Singapore Exchange has cleared a record high of 108.9 million tonnes for its flagship iron ore swaps in 2012.This is 2.5 times of the 43.2 million tonnes cleared in 2011. Open interest reached an all time high of 12.3 million tonnes on ...
Singapore Exchange has cleared a record high of 108.9 million tonnes for its flagship iron ore swaps in 2012.This is 2.5 times of the 43.2 million tonnes cleared in 2011. Open interest reached an all time high of 12.3 million tonnes on ...
Tags: SGX Iron Ore Swaps, Hit Record High, flagship iron ore swaps
US discount retailer Family Dollar Stores has recorded first-quarter earnings that came in at the lower end of its guidance due to gross margin pressure and expense headwinds. In the three months ended 24 November, earnings amounted to ...
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Ukraine prime minister Mykola Azarov said that Ukraine should speed up the development of its transport sector in 2013. Mr Azarov said that"There is much to be done to accelerate the development of the transport sector to improve the ...
In an interview with ET Now,Mr CS Verma CMD of NMDC,shares his business outlook and talks about the iron ore price cut. Q-There is a surprise move because the street was probably expecting a rise in prices.Why this 6%cut? A-We take a ...
Family Dollar Stores, Inc. reported that for the first quarter of fiscal 2013 ended November 24, 2012, net sales increased to $2.42 billion and net income per diluted share for the quarter increased to $0.69. “The investments we ...