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JAFFNA - SRI LANKA
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo
THE CEASEFIRE between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers has sparked plans to resume domestic flights to Jaffna town, previously isolated by the group’s insurgency. Columbo officials are examining the standard of the runway, navigation equipment and passenger facilities at Jaffna’s Palaly airport.…
DAIMLER SA
BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
Motor manufacturer Daimler-Chrysler South Africa has announced that its franchised dealers are to introduce so-called black empowerment partners into their businesses.
The company’s dealer development manger Theo Swanepoel said that his group’s dealers have agreed to take on black African controlled business partners, commanding significant shareholdings.…
THAI ETHANOL
BY MARK ROWE
GOVERNMENT authorities in Thailand are to draw up a series of incentives to attract investor support for crop-based ethanol production. The Thai National Energy Policy Office (Nepo) is to examine the details of developing ethanol-blended fuels as an alternative to petrol and diesel oil.…
PEDESTRIAN SAFETY
Keith Nuthall
THE VOLUNTARY strategy on pedestrian safety design standards for motor vehicles adopted by the European Commission with the European, Japanese and South Korean auto manufacturers has been undermined by a key European Parliament committee, which has called for EU legislation on the subject.…
SUB-STANDARD SHIPPING
Keith Nuthall
THE MARITIME transport committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has agreed that global guidelines should be drawn up which would allow legal negligence to be established when shipowners and charterers have taken advantage of sub-standard vessels.…
CAMBODIA
BY MARK ROWE
INTERNATIONAL maritime authorities have savaged Cambodia’s shipping safety record and called for its flag to be banned from all trade. At least 25 Cambodia-registered ships have been wrecked or stranded since 1995 and there have been a further 41 collisions, nine fires and 45 arrests, according to shipping-records collator, Seaway Data.…
FISHING CRIME
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MONICA DOBIE
CONSIDERING the high value of many cargos shipped around the world, a rational observer might assume that pirates would ignore fishing boats in favour of vessels carrying spices, cigarettes, alcohol, metals or electrical goods. Not so.…
IMO - EU
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to seek authorisation from European Union member governments to negotiate the formal accession of the EU to the International Maritime Organisation. Brussels said that in spite of the EU’s economic strength and the independent political power of its institutions, it carried little weight in the adoption of essential international safety rules in the sea transport sector.…
EU LATEST
Keith Nuthall
NOONE should ever accuse the European Commission of fighting shy of regulation, and given that proposals on promoting shipping safety are generally framed with good intentions, it would be fair to say that Brussels at least tries to improve standards.…
BEACH BUM
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
IN the race for the most enviable job in the world that of Australian research professor Andy Short surely takes the tape.
The associate professor from the University of Sydney’s Marine Studies Centre has just spent three years on full pay at the beach.…