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UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS POSING CHALLENGE FOR GLOBAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
BY PHILIPPA JONES
THE NUMBER of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the skies above Europe is increasing rapidly, but safety concerns mean they normally remain segregated from other airspace users, inhibiting their employment in a wide range of activities. Eurocontrol, the European organisation for the safety of air navigation, has therefore launched a major project of work intended to ensure the safe and efficient integration of UAS into the pan-European Air Traffic Management Network (ATM).…
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES CAR MARKET FALLS OFF CLIFF
BY PAUL COCHRANE
VEHICLE sales in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) plunged by up to 45% in the first two months of the year compared to 2008, according to Ford, a remarkable change in fortunes from the years of double-digit growth when the US$3.6 billion sector was one of the fastest growing in the world.…
EUROPEAN INITIATIVE SEEKS TO PRESERVE OBSOLETE DIGITAL WRITTEN WORKS
BY MARK ROWE
AS book reading online enters the mainstream, one question that has plagued academic and cultural journals for years has re-emerged: digital obsolescence. Publishers are concerned about keeping pace with technological advances and preserving access to digital material.
No sooner, and at significant expense, is literature scanned and digitally secured in a given format, than it risks being overtaken by the latest storage versions.…
ISO OFFERS NUCLEAR SECTOR GLOBAL STANDARDS TO SPREAD BEST PRACTICE
BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN
THE NUCLEAR energy industry has always been a global business, and since the fall of communism, it has become more, not less international. As a result, the need for common standards and practices, relevant to the industry, its suppliers and its customers is becoming increasingly important.…
BIOFUELS POSE RISK TO BIO-BASED OILS AND FATS TREND IN COSMETICS SECTOR
BY MARK ROWE
FOR the past 10 years, the message from the environmental movement has been "biofuels good, fossil fuels bad". And the search for alternatives has exercised many industries, not least the cosmetics sector, which widely uses mineral oils, but has increasingly been looking for ways to use bio-based oils and fats.…
CLOTHING AND TEXTILE SUBSIDIES - UNDER PRESSURE, BUT STILL AVAILABLE
BY ALAN OSBORN, LUCY JONES and KEITH NUTHALL
INTRODUCTION
CLOTHING and textile production and trade subsidies are under pressure today, as they have not been for many years. There has been a steady trend towards liberalisation in the sector worldwide, stemming from the abolition of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) in January 2005 and with it, then end of restrictive quotas for imports for the WTO’s 152 member countries.…
COSMETICS MAJORS MUST MARKET TO DISTINCT ISRAEL AND ARAB MARKETS IN MIDDLE EAST
BY PAUL COCHRANE
THE COSMETICS and personal care sector in the Middle East is one of the fastest growing in the industry worldwide, registering 12% annual growth in the three years to 2008, and valued at US$2.1 billion, according to trade experts Epoc Messe Frankfurt (EMF).…
PROFESSIONAL NURSING IN TRINIDAD CAN BE TOUGH, BUT THERE'S ALWAYS THE BEACH
BY JAMES FULLER
THE TWIN island republic of Trinidad & Tobago is many people’s idea of a tropical idyll but Sunita Kissoon, senior nurse/midwife at the Gulf View Medical Centre in San Fernando, says medical care in her country is fundamentally lacking when compared to the UK.…
ENERGY SPECIALISTS TO DECIDE WHETHER CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE SHOULD HAVE SPECIAL STATUS WITHIN REVISED KYOTO PROTOCOL
BY ERIC LYMAN
THE OIL and gas industry worldwide will closely follow a technical debate to be staged throughout 2009 over whether or not to include carbon capture and storage technologies in the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The issue was tabled at December’s 14th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-14) in Poznan, Poland, and may not be resolved until January 2010.…
ANGOLA AND NIGERIA OIL AND GAS SECTORS UNDER PRESSURE AS OIL PRICES FALL
BY GEORGE STONE
WHAT a difference a year has made in the African oil industry. With sky rocketing oil prices fuelling an expansion boom in 2007 and 2008, this year will be much tougher for the oil and gas sector in sub-Saharan Africa.…