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Kochi is the ‘happening place’ in Kerala, being the commercial capital and land prices have been increasing not in a steady upward curve but in leaps and bounds. The land value in various part of Kochi is directly linked with the plans for new projects-IT park, Vallarpadam Container Terminal, and Airport etc. It is estimated that the future will witness huge investments on infrastructure development for highways, shopping malls and housing projects, which will sent the price of land spiraling.

Genesis: Kochi is a cosmopolitan city modeling itself on the lines of Bangalore and Mumbai. A few decades back, the commercial centre in Kochi or Ernakulam, as it was then called, was restricted to Broadway and M.G.Road. The city started spreading and far-flung areas like Kakkanad have now become part of Kochi city with residential apartments coming up all over the beautiful hillocks in this area. Business establishments have started relocating their showrooms and outlets on the sides of the Trivandrum bye pass road between Edapally and Vytilla. The construction of the Vypeen bridge has opened up new areas for residential and commercial construction as Kochi has become easily accessible from Kochi.

Why invest in real estate?
People have now realized that investment in the stock market, with its ups and downs has its own related problems whereas bank deposits and mutual funds are restrictive in returns. Investing in real estate is a guarantee that the returns at the time of disposal will definitely be higher making it is a very safe mode of investment.

The Flat culture:
Flats have become popular due to the safety and security available for flat dwellers. There is an element of the historical ‘tharavadu’(the joint family system of yesteryears) in the concept of flats with the role of the ‘karnavar’ (seniormost male member who word is the law in the ‘tharavadu’) whose role has been taken over by the Building society in each flat complex. In addition to security, the tenant need not worry about payment of electricity, water or other maintenance bills which are taken care of by the society. All external maintenance is also done by the society. Many of the builders provide utilities like centralized gas, health club, waste chutes and driver’s rooms which are value additions. The paper work involved during the purchase is also minimal and the biggest boon is that one need not worry about the problems of construction-labour, purchase of material, permits and licenses etc.

Independent houses:
Independent villas and houses are expensive but if one can afford it can make you feel like a king. There are many builders who carry out construction on contract basis and with totally transparent terms and conditions. This helps avoid the headaches one would have to face while building homes.

Scientists at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia have been working on a solution to a port container terminal management, specifically the automatic allocation of containers. Given its inherent complexity, we propose that multi-agent systems are the most suitable method for addressing this problem.

Agent/multi-agent systems have become an important field within artificial intelligence research. They have found a number of applications, including control processes, mobile robots, air-traffic management and intelligent information retrieval. Container terminal Technology is a very complex system, and traditional solutions decompose the problem into several sub-problems, each representing one particular aspect. While the set of operations to be conducted in the terminal is very extensive, existing approaches share some common features:

• the Marine Side Interface focuses on the loading and unloading of containers. Normally two or three gantry cranes (GC) are used to move containers for each ship
• the Transfer System transfers containers between the apron and the container storage yard. Yard trucks (YT) perform transports within the terminal. Transtainers are used to pick up or to put down a container on the storage area of the yard.
• the Container Storage System allocates and controls containers in the yard.
• the Land Side Interface handles interactions with the land transportation modes.

Kochi: When the ongoing works at the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal is completed by November, it is poised to create a substantial number of new jobs, especially in the logistics sector. The priority would then shift to finding suitable candidates for the port-related jobs that the project is likely to throw up, Mr N. Ramachandran, Chairman of the Cochin Port Trust, said.

An ever-growing number of jobs are emerging in the logistics sector across the world. This is a sector which has huge potential to generate a large number of jobs and if students are imparted proper training and guidance, it would go a long way to bridge the growing demand as well as to ease the growing unemployment situation in the country.

Kochi will see a huge boom in CFS-related business once the Vallarpadam terminal becomes operational. If trade unions co-operate, there is a tremendous future for the CFS.
Kochi: When the ongoing works at the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal is completed by November, it is poised to create a substantial number of new jobs, especially in the logistics sector. The priority would then shift to finding suitable candidates for the port-related jobs that the project is likely to throw up, Mr N. Ramachandran, Chairman of the Cochin Port Trust, said.

An ever-growing number of jobs are emerging in the logistics sector across the world. This is a sector which has huge potential to generate a large number of jobs and if students are imparted proper training and guidance, it would go a long way to bridge the growing demand as well as to ease the growing unemployment situation in the country.

Kochi will see a huge boom in CFS-related business once the Vallarpadam terminal becomes operational. If trade unions co-operate, there is a tremendous future for the CFS.

courses
The new courses are being promoted by the Dubai Ports World (Kochi) and Falcon Infrastructures Ltd. The 15-month diploma course and one-year PG diploma course would entail a three-month internship at the Cochin Port Trust, Vallarpadam Transshipment Terminal and Falcon Freight Station in Kochi.
The course, which is slated to commence from July this year, would enroll two batches of 30 students each. Students who have completed plus-two with 50 per cent marks would be eligible for the diploma course while those who have completed graduation would be eligible to join the PG Diploma course, a press release issued here has said.