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LIQUOR NICKERS
Keith Nuthall
THREE Sky Chef employees have been charged in connection with theft of over US$1.5 million worth of miniature bottles of spirits from the company’s ‘Bonded Room’ in John F. Kennedy airport, New York. Each of the three men has been charged with burglary and/or criminal possession of stolen property and face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.…
LOS ANGELES
Keith Nuthall
LOS Angeles Airport (LAX) last month began a six-month programme to recycle food leftovers into power generators, which feed electricity into the local grid. The programme has been launched in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works.…
CO2 EMISSIONS ETC
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it is to fund a Euro 120,000 research project examining ways of further reducing carbon dioxide emissions from light commercial vehicles. Brussels has called on companies and think tanks to bid for the contract to carry out the studies.…
ZINC-AIR ELECTRIC BUS
BY KATE REW
THE FIRST electric bus to be powered by a zero-emission zinc-air battery is to start a series of test track trials in the United States, to show it can cope with the rigours of city and suburban driving.…
SULPHUR FREE
Keith Nuthall
BY start of the next decade, all petrol engine automobiles driving in the European Union will have to run on sulphur-free fuel, if EU ministers back fresh proposals from the European Commission.
It wants sulphur to be banned from petrol in the EU by 2011, and has proposed that sulphur-free petrol and diesel should be made available in every Member States from January 1, 2005.…
OPEN SKIES CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s long running bid at the European Court of Justice to undermine the series of bilateral ‘open skies’ agreements struck between individual EU Member States, and the USA has taken a further step forward, with the opening of oral proceedings.…
ASIA DEAL
BY KATE REW
US Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta last week signed an international agreement with senior transportation officials from Singapore, Brunei, New Zealand and Chile, which will open air markets in the Asia-Pacific region.
The new Open Skies agreement, which is the first to involve the United States, has five participating member countries and is open to other countries.…
MULTILATERAL OPEN SKIES
BY KATE REW
THE UNITED States and four Asia-Pacific countries have helped pioneer a groundbreaking multilateral agreement, which follows the “Open Skies” principles previously used in bilateral agreements struck by Washington.
US Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta last week signed the agreement with senior transportation officials from Singapore, Brunei, New Zealand and Chile, which will open up pan-Pacific air markets.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
BY ALAN OSBORN
PROPOSED European legislation for shipping using European Union ports or sailing in waters under the jurisdiction of EU Member States has been toughened up by the European Parliament, though the changes still have to be accepted by national government ministers.…
SRI LANKA FREIGHT FORWARDING
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
BRITISH freight forwarder Oughtred & Harrison (Shipping) Ltd, (O&H), is to team up with one of Sri Lanka’s leading companies in the sector South Asia Logistics Ltd, with the companies signing an agency agreement to develop services between their respective countries.…