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Dr E Sreedharan, India’s ‘Metro Man’ & India’s Top Metro Rail CEOs converge in Mumbai for CW Metro Rail Conference

More than 25 speakers – from over 10 metro rail corporations, technology experts, & transportation experts - will engage in crucial conversations regarding the sustainability, growth, and financial resilience of the Indian metro rail sector.

Schwing Stetter’s plantation drive extends across Tamil Nadu

The initiative’s goal is to plant 2,50,000 trees globally by 2023

Schwing Stetter launches new service centre and spares outlet in Kochi

Marks yet another move to increase their PAN India outreach

JCB opens new dealership headquarters at Kochi

JCB India inaugurated the new headquarters of its dealership, Popular JCB at Kochi in Kerala. Spread over 40,000 sq ft, with built-up area of 24,000 sq ft, the dealership employs over 200 trained personnel.

Trimble unveils pan-India training program

Trimble has unveiled its pan-India training program to train the next-generation of engineering and construction industry professionals. The company also announced the opening of its latest Tekla Authorized Training Center (ATC) in Vijayawada, taking the number of ATCs to 17 across India.

MAN flags off pan-India drive

MAN Trucks India has undertaken a unique customer outreach, named ?The MANExpedition?. The activity comprises five haulage trucks starting from Pune,Dhanbad and Kochi, respectively that will traverse the country over 22 days.

Construction World Annual Awards 2017

Foundation of Infrastructure Research Studies Training (FIRST) hosted the 15th CONSTRUCTION WORLD Annual Awards at ITC Grand Central, Parel, in Mumbai.

GST Council needs to prioritise CE

Dr E Sreedharan was revered and acknowledged as India's 'Metro man' because he managed to do the impossible, i.e., dig into Delhi while it worked and build the metro rail, and that too, in record time. His execution won him laurels.

New Director-CFS at Gateway Distriparks

Gateway Distriparks Ltd (GDL) has appointed Captain Kapil Anand as Director - CFS with effect from September 1, 2016.

Multi-modal logistics park in Kerala

Kerala has been included in the list of 11 states to have multimodal logistics parks, at a cost of Rs 32,853 crore

Shashi Kiran Shetty receives Businessman of the Year award

Shashi Kiran Shetty, Founder and Chairman, Allcargo Logistics was awarded the Businessman of the Year award at the India Seatrade Awards held recently at Kochi.

Application of AWPs will only grow.

ABC Infra is part of the ABC Group which has carved a niche in providing project/ODC transportation services under the banner of Assam Bombay Carriers for the past 35 years. ABC Infra Equipment provides equipment hiring solutions.

New Director-CFS at Gateway Distriparks

Gateway Distriparks Ltd (GDL) has appointed Captain Kapil Anand as Director - CFS with effect from 1 September 2016. Captain Anand will be managing the day to day affairs of the CFS business and will be responsible for business development and operations on a pan-India basis

Shashi Kiran Shetty receives Businessman of the Year award

Shashi Kiran Shetty, Founder and Chairman, Allcargo Logistics was awarded the Businessman of the Year award at the India Seatrade Awards held recently at Kochi. Allcargo also received ?Coastal Bulk Vessel Operator of the Year? for its outstanding performance in coastal shipping.

Snowman constructs new facility

Snowman Logistics Ltd has completed the construction of its new facility at Jaipur in line with its expansion plans, and is now ready for operations. The capacity of this facility is 4,200 pallets, taking the total capacity of the company to 98,500 pallets.

GDL starts construction of new Logistics Park

Gateway Distriparks Ltd (GDL) has commenced construction of its Logistics Park at Krishnapatnam Port in Andhra Pradesh after receiving all necessary state government approvals.

Rock breaker market can grow between 7,000 to 8,000 units in 5 years.

Present in India since 1960 with eleven regional and satellite offices, Atlas Copco offers a wide range of rock breakers. Nitin Lall, General Manager, Atlas Copco Construction Technique

We have a long term plan to grow this business.

L&T supports our efforts for market development by helping us in developing new applications and introducing new products, says Joseph Zacharias, Director, Cinzac Sales & Services Pvt Ltd

Potain Cranes at Kochi

Kochi is one of the fast growing cities in India with a lot of residential and infrastructure developments happening across the city. Potain tower cranes are part of these developments. Three Potain tower cranes are currently building three luxury residential developments across the city, which is the most densely populated in Kerala.

Changing Dynamics

The industrial cranes market in India is valued in the range of Rs 1,800-2,000 crore per annum. Approximately 30 per cent of the demand comes from government sector and PSUs while the remaining 70 per cent from private sector.

Integrated Load Handling Solutions

With a myriad of attachments, truck-mounted cranes have created niche applications segments with faster, safer and more productive solutions.Construction industry has been witnessing a shift towards using safer, more advanced technology, especially application-oriented equipment and machinery

Eicher launches new generation trucks in Kerala

VECV recently launched the Eicher Pro1000 and Eicher Pro 3000 series of light and medium duty trucks in Kochi, Kerala. The new trucks will meet the needs of the emerging mid-premium market segment, which demands vehicles of higher power and durability, greater comfort

VECV launches Eicher Pro 1000 & 3000 series in Kerala

VECV launched the Eicher Pro1000 and Eicher Pro 3000 series of light and medium duty trucks in Kochi, Kerala. Eicher Pro 1000 Series is a new and enhanced range of light and medium duty trucks in the 5-14T segment, specially designed for the value segment with best in class rated payload.

Potain cranes on the job

A leading Indian contractor relies on Potain cranes for a landmark project.One of India?s largest contractors is using three of its seven?strong fleet of Potain tower cranes to build Wave One, a landmark commercial development in Noida. Leighton Welspun Contractors deployed the MC 125s at the job site in 2011 and they will continue to work 22 hours a day,

People demand to execute 3-road project in Tripunithura

In Kerala, residents of Tripunithura Municipality in Ernakulam district have sought the implementation of three-road development project proposed by the municipality to prevent petroleum and other bullet tankers from using the busy roads. According to the local people, the proposals to widening the Mamala-Chithrapuzha Bund Road (from Thiruvankulam to Manakkapadi via Kochi-Madurai bypass) and the Manakkapadi-Vyttila Road (via Eroor and Kaniyampuzha) must be taken up on priority basis.

Kerala to repair rain damaged roads at Rs 300 cr

In Kerala, the total estimated road damage caused due to the monsoon has been estimated at Rs 300 crore, said PWD Minister VK Ebrahim Kunju in Kochi on July 13. The state received hundred per cent rainfall this monsoon, which has resulted in the bad condition of the roads. Maintenance of the roads will take place once the rain subsides.

Aluva-Edapally stretch h'way in Kochi to be widened

The Aluva-Edappally stretch of National Highway 47 in Kochi is to be widened into four-lane one to facilitate traffic during the metro rail works. The Kochi Metro Rail authorities already taken initiative for this. The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has given its consent for the widening of the stretch. The National Highway will be widened by evacuating encroachments on either side but without acquiring additional land.

An experienced hand

VA George, President & CEO, Thejo Engineering, holds a degree in mechanical engineering and a post graduate diploma in management, in addition to being a certified associate of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance.

Work on Kochi's Edappally flyover to begin in 4 months

In Kerala's Kochi city, work on the Edappally flyover will begin in four months, the State Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said. All the paper work would be ready in two weeks? time. The State government would formulate a special package to overcome hurdles in acquiring land for infrastructure projects, Chandy said. The package will include relaxing of building rules for those who surrender land free of cost.

Kerala takes up major road projects for Kochi city

Kerala government has taken up four major road and building projects that would contribute to the development of Kochi city. Work on the projects were scheduled to begin on May 22. This will include the Rs 660-crore Seaport-Airport Road second phase development, four-laning of the present road; construction of the Roads and Bridges Development Corporation Kerala office and shopping mall and the construction of the first concrete road.

Flyover planned to solve traffic jams in Kochi's Vyttila

To resolve traffic problems in Kochi's Vyttila area, the most crowded junction in Kerala, the district administration has come up with a novel idea of constructing portal frame structured flyovers. The major advantage of the portal frame structure is that it will be free of pillars in the middle of the road that will ensure free flow of traffic by incorporating loops and ramps for entering the flyover.

Kerala govt begins work on Rs 20 bn corridor project

Work on the Rs 2,000 crore coastal corridor project to link Vallarpadam with Kozhikode in Kerala began with the state Chief Minister Oommen Chandy inaugurating it recently. The corridor is expected to bring about tremendous development to the coastal belt and it involves upgradation of the existing Tipu Sultan Road

Six-lane for Edappally-Aroor NH key to ease traffic woes

In Kerala, widening of the Edappally-Aroor NH Bypass into six lane and subsequent development of the four major junctions in the stretch hold the key to smoothening traffic flow along the stretch.

SSIP bullish on Kerala

SSIPL is upbeat about the concrete equipment industry in Kerala, as it showcased its largest concreting boom pump in India at the 40th IFAWPCA. Schwing Stetter India, one of the pioneers of concrete construction equipment in India, has revealed plans to tap the burgeoning Kerala market,

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