Kakinada: Even as the airport at Rajamahendravaram has night landing facility and is operating six flights a day to Hyderabad, the demand for more flights to other destinations has been increasing steadily. Particularly, the local trading community is under the impression that the services of the airport can be improved manifold to cater to the market demand.
Absence of direct flight services to metropolitan cities like Mumbai and Chennai from Rajamahendravaram is forcing the shippers, who have to book travel tickets to their crew, to bear the additional expenses by way of booking tickets for break journey at Hyderabad.
Similar is the case with crew members from other cities to the ports here to sail on the ships.
According to statistics, the two ports in Kakinada receive 72 ships per month either for import or export cargo from and to foreign destinations.
In the current fiscal, 864 vessels called at Kakinada port and about 40 per cent of the ships signed-off/signed-on their crew.
14/01/16 The Hindu
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Absence of direct flight services to metropolitan cities like Mumbai and Chennai from Rajamahendravaram is forcing the shippers, who have to book travel tickets to their crew, to bear the additional expenses by way of booking tickets for break journey at Hyderabad.
Similar is the case with crew members from other cities to the ports here to sail on the ships.
According to statistics, the two ports in Kakinada receive 72 ships per month either for import or export cargo from and to foreign destinations.
In the current fiscal, 864 vessels called at Kakinada port and about 40 per cent of the ships signed-off/signed-on their crew.
14/01/16 The Hindu
