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BY PHILIP FINE

A REPORT from a US federal government advisory body has signalled a move away from the standard American transport philosophy that building more roads is a cure for congestion. The National Academies’ Transportation Research Board has called instead for the US to better exploit its existing road and rail networks.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London, PHILIP FINE, in Montreal, and MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

WITH a new crackdown on counterfeiting being prepared by the

European Commission, some industry watchers will be surprised to hear that soft drinks is one the sectors that Brussels thinks needs close attention.…

BY PHILIP FINE

US researchers are celebrating an important advance in developing a viable magnetic refrigerator. The scientists have improved upon the key ingredient to a process that uses no ozone-depleting refrigerants or energy-consuming compressors. They have been working with an alloy metal called gadolinium, which heats up when exposed to a magnetic field, then cools down when the magnetic field is removed.…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal, Canada

THE EFFECTS of September 11 have left their mark on the relationship between air traffic control national service providers (ANSPs) and their customers. The economic fall-out from the terrorist attacks now defines much of the dialogue between ANSPs, airlines and airports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SECRETARIAT for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has released a report advising nurseries and customs officers about the world’s illegal trade in wild rare plants.

Said the CITES report: “This illegal trade can involve trade without documents and documents issued for different specimens and, very frequently, can involve fraudulent claims of artificial propagation that can be difficult for the non-specialist to detect.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation has inaugurated new training facilities for developing country trade officials, a result of the Doha summit that led to the current so-called development trade round. There, governments agreed that officials from poorer countries needed assistance in grappling with complicated trade law talks, so they could play a full part in negotiations.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
FINANCIAL restrictions should be imposed on companies, businessmen, ministers and soldiers charged with involvement in the shameless plundering of the mineral resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a United Nations (UN) committee established to investigate the problem has concluded.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to tighten rules on ballast management for international shipping to prevent the transport and release of alien species that can deplete the stocks of native species through natural competition.

In a broad strategy to boost the marine environment, Brussels warned that Baltic fisheries were particularly vulnerable to the introduction of alien species, given the sea’s low natural biodiversity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to tighten rules on ballast management for international shipping to prevent the transport and release of alien species that can deplete the stocks of native species through natural competition.

In a broad strategy to boost the marine environment, Brussels warned that Baltic fisheries were particularly vulnerable to the introduction of alien species, given the sea’s low natural biodiversity.…