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SECURITY CODE COSTS
BY DEIRDRE MASON
WHAT price safety? Ports and shippers racing to comply with an extremely tight deadline to meet the new International Marine Organisation security requirements are still not sure what the final bill will be. However, with the newly added SOLAS (safety of life at sea convention) special measures and the also new International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) code due to come into effect on 1 July 2004, those who are not already well down the line to meeting the requirements will find the costs rising sharply as demand for security services steps up.…
HIGH END INDIAN SALES
SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
A SHOE making cooperative in India has shown how a niche brand can seize up-market export sales by exploiting elaborate and imaginative designs. The Toe Hold Artisans Collaborative, Karnataka, exported US$60,000 of its lines to Italy, Australia, Japan and Sweden in 2002-3, and is targeting US$100,000 sales this financial year.…
MICROWAVE DRYING
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane
A NEW technique for drying timber using microwave technology has been developed by researchers at Australia’s Cooperative Research Centre for Wood Innovations. It reduces the time needed to dry hardwood from around one year to one day.…
SAUDI SHEEP
BY MATTHEW BRACE
THE FLOCKS of sheep floating about in a livestock ship in the Middle East will be brought back to Australia or killed at sea. Desperate negotiations to give them away to various Middle Eastern countries as a goodwill trade gesture have so far failed.…
DRC COPPER-SILVER MINE
BY RICHARD HURST
THE US$5 million second phase of the Dikulushi copper-silver mine, in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to start soon, by the second week in November, according to Bill Turner, managing director of Australia’s Anvil Mining. He said that the new phase would extend the life span of the mine by another five years allowing the mine to produce 42 million pounds of copper and 1.8 million ounces of silver.…
DRINKS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…
LAOS COPPER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Euro 70 million to help Australia’s Oxiana Resources develop a copper mine in Laos. On the basis of its policies supporting international development, the EIB would fund Oxiana’s development of the Khanong open cast pit, 370 kilometres southeast of the Laos capital Vientiane.…
LAOS COPPER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Euro 70 million to help Australia’s Oxiana Resources develop a copper mine in Laos. On the basis of its policies supporting international development, the EIB would fund Oxiana’s development of the Khanong open cast pit, 370 kilometres southeast of the Laos capital Vientiane.…
USA SUGAR QUOTAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DOMINICAN Republic, Brazil and the Philippines are the key beneficiaries of the latest low tariff import quotas for sugar unveiled by the United States Trade Representative. Out of a total low duty quota for 2003-4 of 1,117,195 metric tonnes, the Dominican Republic commands 185,335 tonnes, Brazil 152,691 and the Philippines 142,160.…
SUGAR PANEL CREATED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DISPUTE proceedings panel has now been established at the World Trade Organisation to rule on the legality of the European Union’s sugar export subsidies. Australia, Brazil and Thailand allege the handouts break world trade laws. Barbados, Canada, China, Colombia, Jamaica, Mauritius, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago and the US reserved their right to participate.…