GREEN PORTAPRIL - JUNE 2016 COCHIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LTD. MAGAZINE T3; The New TerminalChief Minister Oommen Chandy inaugurated Terminal 3 of CIAL New Terminal Organic CIAL Aviation Inauguration Farming Museum CIAL New Terminal CIAL forays A museum to inaugurated into organic showcase on 26 Feb. 2016 farming aviation MD'S NOTE Volume 1, Issue 2 When dreams triumph arget is a word which has diverse expectation of management by surmount- Tperceptions. For many, it is a deadline ing the daunting task of building a colossal to achieve anyhow. For some, it is a point terminal just in 24 months. I expect that, in time which one is supposed to pass by CAIL can facilitate commercial operation in Managing Editor during the career. When you are dealing T3 in the month of June. Nice going! A.C.K.Nair with target with passion and care, the feel When CIAL was in its primitive stage and the ED & Airport Director you get, when it is being achieved is nothing airport project was reeling in crises, there but bliss. We are in bliss now. We could Managing Committee were many stood by me. We travelled 17 achieve a target in an unbelievable span A.M. Shabeer, ED- Engineering years since the project was commissioned. Sunil Chacko, CFO of time only because we, like always, took Today we are well poised to prosper. Here K.P. Thankachan, GM-Civil up the challenge with passion and care. a thought was set off that there should be Jayarajan V., Head-HR The new international terminal; T-3, which something to mark those perilous days. was inaugurated by Hon. Chief Minister People should know how a project was Oommen Chandy on 26th February 2016 is succeeded with minimum resources and Editor a new episode in the illustrious track record maximum passion. Also, the documentation P.S.Jayan of CIAL. The foundation stone for the new of the yesteryears may definitely fuel the Manager- PR&CC terminal was laid on 1st February 2014 and company’s future efforts to scale up its op- in just 24 months, the construction of the erations. Considering these facts, we tried building with an area of 15 lakh sq.ft. was to narrate the story of CIAL and making Editorial Board completed at a cost of Rs. 1000 crore. The of an airport from scratch. The result is a C.Dinesh Kumar, DGM-Operations efficiency of this process becomes highlight- coffee table book; “Insignia of a Dream ‘’. I Joseph Peter, AGM-Commercial ed when we compare it to the construction Dominic Fernandez, SM-LA am cherished by the way the book was com- of the 54 lakh sq.ft. Terminal – 3 at New Del- Anoop K., AM-IT piled. It is inclusive and comprehensive. It hi Airport, which was completed at a cost Baybin J. Korah, Senior Asst.- HR gets along with the stories of everyone who of Rs. 13,000 crore. Every details regarding Pran K. Pillai, Senior Asst-Finance had involved in the airport project. the tenders and expenditure related to the T-3 are available at CIAL’s website www.cial. Magazine Design & Production Yet another financial year has set in. The VizKarma Technologies aero, which again is an initiative in ensuring organisation had performed stupendously Kochi transparency. The new terminal has been well during the just concluded fiscal. This constructed with all possible modern facil- year more challenges are on our way. But Photos Columbia ities. It can live up to the challenges and re- craving for the repeated success should not quirements that aviation industry can throw have stop-overs. We are professionally and The views and opinions expressed herein up for the next 25 years. I congratulate virtuously ambitious; hoping better future; are not necessarily those of each one; CIAL team members, contractors, Cochin International airport Ltd. both in figures and goodwill. It is time to (For private circulation only) vendors and consultant for leaving up to the gear up our efforts once again. Thank you ! VJ. Kurian 2 Greenport Magazine Greenport Magazine 3 34Dcruz APRIL - JUNE 2016 20 CIAL passenger traffic sIm¨n hnam\¯mhf¯nse kômcnIfpsS IW¡phnhcw 22 Phone battery tips kvamÀ«v t^m¬ _mädn D]tbmKw hÀ[n¸n¡m\pÅ Sn¸pIÄ 24 8 ways to be most approachable kulrZ hebw hÀ²n¸n¡m³ Nne \nÀt±i§Ä 25 Direct service to Bangkok _mt¦m¡nte¡v t\cn«pÅ kÀhokpIÄ C\n sIm¨nbnð\nóv 26 Cochin Masters Golf tKmÄ^nð ]pXnb am\§Ä Ipdn¨psImïv knbmð tKmÄ^v 28 Aviation Snippets thymabm\s¯¡pdn¨pÅ t^mt«mIfpw aäp hnhc§fpw CIAL Golf 31 CIAL New faces 26 knbmð ]pXnb Poh\¡msc¡pdn ¨pÅ hnhcW§Ä 34 Dcruz hyànbpw hntijhpw GREENPORT þ Un{Iqkv Magazine Contents 36 Diabeties {]tals¯¡pdn¨pÅ hniZamb \n 06 T3 The new terminal co£W§fpw aäp hniZmwihpw Term Insurance ]pXnb sSÀan\ð DXvLmS\w 38 38 Term Insurance T3 Inaguration apJya{´n D½³ Nmïn \nÀÆln¨p tSw C³jzd³kns\¡pdn¨v knbmð 06 14 Civil aviation minister visit AwK¯nsâ hniZoIcWw tI{µ thymabm\ a{´n sIm¨n 40 Brand of the year award hnam\¯mhfw kµÀin¨p ]pckvImc tPXmhmb knbmð 17 Organic farming Diabetis AhmÀUv Zm\ NS§nð 36 41 BCAS excellence award knbmenð ssPh ]¨¡dn hnfshSp¸v asämcp AhmÀUv Zm\ NS§nsâ 18 Love me, heal me mother earth hnhcW§fpw t^mt«mIfpw `qansb Im¯pkq£n¡m³ 42 Museum inauguration Hcp IhnX ayqknbw DXvLmS\¨S§s\ 19 CIAL history gets colourful wings Ipdn¨pÅ dnt¸mÀ«v knbmensâ Ncn{Xhpambn tIm^n 45 CIAL staff welfare club tS_nÄ ]pkvXIw Ivfºnsâ `mchmlnIsf¡pdn¨pÅ hniZmwi§Ä 14Minister Visit 4 Greenport Magazine Greenport Magazine 5 NEW TERMINAL CIAL'S NEW INAUGURATEDTERMINAL BY CHIEF MINISTER CIAL has proved its hief Minister Oommen Chandy inaugurated along with increasing the capacity of the existing efficiency in completing Cthe Terminal 3 of Cochin International airport solar power plants, he said. on 26th February 2016, in a function enriched with the new international The State Government is continuing its attempt to glamour, vigour and splendid. While delivering terminal well within the realise the Air Kerala project by securing exemptions time frame and at much the inaugural address, he informed the gathering for conditions from the Union Government and lower cost that the state Government had decided to entrust also to start direct flights from Kochi to Europe and Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) with the Australia. construction of the air strip at Bekal. CIAL has proved its efficiency in completing the CIAL’s services would also be used to establish new international terminal well within the time eight helipads in different parts of Kerala. CIAL has frame and at much lower cost, thereby setting a already started work of eight small hydel projects role model for success for the entire nation, Sri. 6 Greenport Magazine Greenport Magazine 7 introductory remarks and A.M. Shabeer, Executive Director, CIAL, presented the technical report. M.A. Yusuffali, Director, CIAL, welcomed the gathering and A.C.K. Nair, Airport Director, proposed the vote of thanks. The new terminal with 15 lakh sq.ft area was constructed at the cost of less than Rs. 1000 crore. The foundation stone for it was laid on February 1, 2014. Oommen Chandy said. More than 30 different agencies were engaged for the Presiding over the function, K. Babu, Minister for completion of the work in just 24 months. Excise, Ports and Fisheries, said that many mega projects, which were thought to be not practical, were completed at during recent period. The fourth T3 – A new episode in CIAL’s glorious international airport at Kannur would become track record commercially operational in next September. Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) has always The State Government could complete many other been a trail blazer. It dared to take on new challenges big projects like Vizhinjam Transshipment Terminal, and complete them with poise. The new international Metro Rail, City Gas project and the first phase of terminal T-3, which was inaugurated by Chief Minister Smart City with similar efficiency, Mr. Babu said. Oommen Chandy, is the new episode in the illustrious track record of CIAL. Anoop Jacob, Minister for Food and Civil Supplies; K.M. Mani, MLA and Director of CIAL; K.V. Thomas, The foundation stone for the new terminal was MP, and Anwar Sadath, MLA, offered feliciations. laid on February 1, 2014 and in just 24 months, the V.J. Kurian, Managing Director, CIAL, made the construction of the building with an area of 15 lakh sq.ft. was completed at the cost of Rs. 1000 crore. The efficiency of this process becomes highlighted when we compare it to the construction of the 54 lakh sq.ft. Terminal – 3 at New Delhi Airport, which was 8 Greenport Magazine Greenport Magazine 9 completed at a cost of Rs. 13,000 crores. Every details regarding the tenders and expenditure related to the T-3 is available at CIAL’s website www.cial.aero, which again is an initiative in ensuring transparency. CIAL has registered an income of Rs. 414 crores in last financial year, with a profit of Rs. 144.58 crore. CIAL has been paying the dividends to shareholders without break since 2003-04 and till date, CIAL has provided 153 per cent devidend to the investors. More than profit, CIAL has set a new record in complete rehabilitation of those displaced for the project and is currently providing jobs for more than 6,000 persons. All of the 822 families who lost homes during the construction of the airport were rehabilitated and provided jobs.