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NOISE CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONSTRUCTION companies in Germany, Italy, Greece and Portugal may soon be forced to use quieter plant, including concrete mixers, mobile and tower cranes, dumper trucks and hydraulic excavators, because of legal threats against their national governments. The European Commission is warning it may launch cases at the European Court of Justice to force them to implement directive 2000/14/EC on noise emissions from outdoor equipment.…
CATHAY
BY MARK ROWE
CATHAY Pacific Airways and DHL International plan to start a dedicated regional express cargo joint-venture this year. Airlines including China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines – for Shanghai-linked volumes – will fly to key business and feed cargo into Cathay’s international long-haul network.…
DORVAL INTERNATIONAL
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
DORVAL International Airport in Montreal, Canada, is to undergo a CAN$460-million expansion plan in order provide extra passenger capacity. The first stage will see 17 new gates for international use at a cost of CAN$300-million that will be completed by next spring.…
DURBAN
BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
BIDDERS for the new international airport north of Durban South Africa have begun to stake claims in the project with interest being drawn from Swiss technology group ABB and the investment arm of Australia’s Macquarie Bank.…
DUBLIN AIRPORT
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has thrown out an allegation that Irish air authority Aer Rianta abused a dominant position in Ireland’s aviation sector when Fingal County Council rejected an application for the construction of a second terminal at Dublin airport in 1997.…
ECJ CASES
Keith Nuthall
THE REPUBLIC of Ireland has been sent a final legal warning note alleging that its government has failed to implement a EU scheme for monitoring CO2 emissions from new passenger cars. Under the scheme, Member States are supposed to send data to the European Commission annually, with the deadline for producing the first information report being July 1, 2001.…
RUSSIA - GLASS
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development has drawn up plans to lend lending Russia’s largest automobile glass manufacturer US$ 25 million; Bor Glass Works, near Nizhny Novgorod, is to spend the money on improving its auto and flat glass production and repairing a furnace.…
BLOCK EXEMPTION
Keith Nuthall
Members of the European Parliament are pressing for a partial delay to the introduction of the European Commission’s block exemption reforms, by proposing a two year delay to the introduction of the right of dealers to establish themselves in foreign Member States.…
FORD - AD AGENCY
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE FORD Motor Company of Canada Ltd has announced it will invite other advertising agencies to bid for its estimated CAN$50 million contract that has been in the hands of Young and Rubicam Canada for the past ten years.…
FUTABA - CANADA
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
JAPAN’S Futaba Industrial Co. Ltd. has signed a deal to purchase land in Canada’s Stratford, Ontario, which will be home to a new plant making parts for Toyota automobiles. Kiyoshi Hina, its future plant manager, told the local Beacon Herald that the company will invest a total of US$20 million, employing about 70 employees.…