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RUSSIA EBRD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending US$20 million to OAO Concern Kalina, the leading producer of cosmetics and personal care products in Russia and the former Soviet Union, to finance its acquisition of smaller Russian competitors, as well as make new capital investments.…
RUSSIA SHEET STEEL DUTY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the reimposition of definitive anti-dumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of grain oriented cold-rolled sheets (GOES) and strips of silicon-electrical steel with a width or more than 500 mm from Russia.…
FISH FEATURE
BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE, in London, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane, and RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg
Introduction
Europe
Cuts to EU catch quotas
New sources of fish
Affect on fish producers
Wild alternatives to cod
Farmed cod
North America
USA – Healthier local stocks
USA – Demand up
USA – Fish imports
Canada – Farmed fish exports
Canada – GM issues
Australasia
Australia – New wild sources
Australia – Aquaculture
Australia – Wild fish innovation
Australia and New Zealand – sustainability
South Africa – Export increase and conservation
Japan – Local and regional supply
Japan – Maintaining quality
Japan – Non-Asian sources
Introduction
ONCE it was said, cod was so abundant that fishermen in some parts of the world boasted they could walk on the backs of the fish to find their catch.…
FINLAND DISEASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FISH Diseases Commission of the Office International des Epizooties has confirmed an outbreak of Epizootic Haematopoietic Necrosis on a Finland fish farm. The international organisation has warned of 2,600 possible cases of European Sheatfish Virus on the farm, in south-eastern Finland, near the Russian border, on the River Vuoksi.…
GAZPROM
BY MARK ROWE
SENIOR Gazprom executives will meet EU officials next month (Feb) to discuss the Russian company’s US$5.7 billion project to build a pipeline to Britain under the Baltic Sea. The North European Gas Pipeline, due to open in 2007, should carry 30 billion cubic meters of gas per year to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Britain.…
RUSSIA PORT SAFETY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending US$5.4 million to the Maritime Port Authority of St Petersburg to fund the construction of a maritime navigation safety system in the main Russian sector of the Baltic Sea, where a future surge in tanker traffic is anticipated.…
VODKA WINDSCREEN CLEANER
BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIAN entrepreneur Oleg Udolin is making windscreen-cleaning fluid out of contraband vodka in a neat reversal of the traditional Russian penchant for drinking anti-freeze. The man’s company extracts ethyl alcohol under licence from bottles of vodka confiscated by police and customs.…
RUSSIA PORT SAFETY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending US$5.4 million to the Maritime Port Authority of St Petersburg to fund the construction of a maritime navigation safety system in the main Russian sector of the Baltic Sea, where a future surge in tanker traffic is anticipated.…
RUSSIA FEATURE
BY MARK ROWE
IF you open the window, flies will enter your home but in post-Soviet Russia it wasn’t just the windows but the doors too that were flung wide open.
Organised gangs, drawn by the sweet smell of easy pickings, duly swarmed all over the decaying house of Lenin.…
MONEY LAUNDERING & FATF etc
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOO many cooks spoil the broth. Or do they? As far as the world’s fight against money laundering is concerned, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund think that they can bring extra flavour to the struggle waged by the OECD’s Financial Action Task Force (FATF).…