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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PROPOSAL to liberalise the global trade in artificially propagated orchids been approved by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Its member governments – meeting in Santiago, Chile – exempted six species from trade controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HIGH risk of nurses worldwide becoming victims of violence has sparked four international organisations into drawing up guidelines advising managers on how to reduce the exposure of their staff to physical attack or threats.

These draft Framework Guidelines for addressing Workplace Violence in the Health Sector are being produced by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the World Health Organisation (WHO), Public Services International (PSI) and the International Council of Nurses (ICN).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE WORLD is a very long way from establishing a global system for air traffic management, but at least some of the building blocks are now being put into place. We know that neither global regulation nor global management of air traffic is a realistic concept unless preceded by a number of fundamental changes in the way the two are handled institutionally in many countries.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE CURRENT ATM system is flawed in many ways – one key problem being the inherent inefficiencies of an airway system relying on ground-based navigational aids and routes set up around 50 years ago. ANSPs have a responsibility to ensure the environment – in the air and on the ground – is protected as much as possible from wasteful engine emissions of noxious substances.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
WHEN IATA’s Director General and CEO, Pierre J Jeanniot, spoke at the opening of his organisation’s 58th AGM and the World Air Transport Summit in Shanghai on June 3, 2002, he lamented the industry’s losses of US$12 billion the previous year.…

BY MARK ROWE
MANY air traffic control (ATC) organisations experience difficulties in attracting sufficient qualified staff. Indeed, the air transport industry does not seem to be as attractive an employer as it used to be. As a result, CANSO is examining selection and scaling methods, benchmarking qualification requirements, and evaluating common programmes for attracting new applicants.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
THE FINANCIAL framework of state regulated air traffic management is often perceived by the more commercially orientated air transport industry as inflexible and driven by supply rather than demand. This perception remains despite the widespread corporatisation of ANSPs, (air navigation service providers), which has pulled them away from the firm embrace of government.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE CURRENT air traffic management (ATM) is flawed in many ways; one key problem being the inherent inefficiencies of an airway system relying on ground-based navigational aids and routes set up around 50 years ago.

Air Navigation Services Providers (ANSP’s) have a responsibility to ensure that the environment – in the air and on the ground – is protected as much as possible from wasteful engine emissions of noxious substances.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is lending Euro 55 million to the (Greek) Republic of Cyprus to fund improvements to the efficiency, safety and capacity of air traffic control services in the Nicosia Flight Information Region.

Its loan will pay for buildings and equipment at the new Area Control Centre, Nicosia, replacing long-range primary and secondary surveillance radar, at Konia, and also replacing Larnaca’s instrument landing system.…

BY MARK ROWE
SINGAPORE has launched a 10-year strategy called “London Plus” with the aim of becoming a leading global integrated logistics hub offering aviation, maritime and land transport expertise. The country’s Economic Review Committee says Singapore should cut airport landing and parking charges at Changi airport and also recommends that special customs treatment for cargo at the airport’s free trade zone be extended to allow logistics companies to handle cargo outside these zones.…