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THE STRATEGY and business development director of global aviation and transport systems giant Thales predicts that a global set of comprehensive rules controlling unmanned aircraft could be in place by 2019. That would be the year of the next triennial assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), and allow enough time for expertise to be developed in countries such as the USA, Singapore, Australia, and the UK, that are leading on drone regulation.…

THE HEAD of groundbreaking satellite navigation company Aireon has told Jane’s Airport Review that his company’s network will not replace ground-based air navigation services, rather compliment them and supply healthy excess capacity that will boost reliability. Don Thoma, president and CEO of Aireon, Virginia, USA-based space-based automatic dependent surveillance broadcast network system operator, said: “It’s going to be all of the above.…

THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is to discuss enriching the weather forecasts supplied to airlines, airports and air traffic controllers through the World Area Forecast System (WAFS), so that pilots have much more detailed data available to avoid turbulence and tap stronger tail winds.…

THE PRESIDENT of key USA aviation standards institution the RTCA has told an international ATM conference that growth in drone traffic means the industry must develops technical guidance much faster than in the past.

Speaking today (Monday) at the launch of this week’s GANIS (Global Air Navigation Industry Symposium) at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) headquarters in Montréal, Canada, Margaret Jenny warned that the old slow and steady way of developing standards for manned aviation was now out of date.…

INTERNATIONAL specialists in exchanging aviation systems data are highlighting for the need for developing a comprehensive global guideline for rolling out SWIM (system wide information management), an international ATC conference has been told. Speaking to this week’s (December 11-15) GANIS (Global Air Navigation Industry Symposium) at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) headquarters in Montréal, Canada, Alexander Pufahl, ICAO’s information management technical officer, declared: “It has to be a global system.…

China appears to be stepping up a gear regarding its fight against money laundering, judging by the propaganda campaign ongoing across the country this winter. Uniformed staff of the Postal Savings Bank of China have, for instance, been out on the streets of the city of Jian in Jiangxi Province, handing out leaflets to pedestrians warning about the dangers of money laundering.…

AS much as USD200 million is to be invested by the Russian government in the local manufacture of raw materials used by the domestic textile industry over the next two years (2018-19).

Funds will be allocated to boost production of cotton, flax and wool in specific areas across the country, thus allowing for the reduction of imports of such products by between 25% and 30% as early as next year, said Russia’s minister of industry and trade, Denis Manturov.…

NEW Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) signal a promising outlook for the Vietnamese textile industry with tariff concessions providing the biggest stimulus to figures, according to the country’s trade officials.

Attendees at the 17^th Vietnam International Textile & Garment Industry Exhibition, held late last month (November 22-25th) in Ho Chi Minh City, heard the deals will impact significantly on the national textile sector.…

Two new cosmetics houses which each claim to be ‘disrupting’ the industry in their approach as start-ups follow diametrically opposed business models with both claiming their version is the key to their success.

While one, Deciem, based in Toronto, Canada, keeps all stages of development and production in-house, Be For Beauty, from Nottingham, UK, claims business is better when outsourcing key elements such as manufacturing to specialists in the field.…

MANY thousands of fossil fuel sector employees around the world are being offered free training programmes to work in the renewable energy sector, as this segment grows, and its carbon-heavy counterparts are phased out.

Coal miners and workers from the oil and gas industry, both of which have seen recent downturns and face an uncertain future due to climate change concerns and market pressures, are increasingly open to such re-skilling, some provided by companies in the renewables industry keen to sign up talented workers who understand energy, as green power expands.…