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BY MARK ROWE
MANY air traffic control (ATC) organisations experience difficulties in attracting sufficient qualified staff. Indeed, the air transport industry does not seem to be as attractive an employer as it used to be. As a result, CANSO is examining selection and scaling methods, benchmarking qualification requirements, and evaluating common programmes for attracting new applicants.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
THE FINANCIAL framework of state regulated air traffic management is often perceived by the more commercially orientated air transport industry as inflexible and driven by supply rather than demand. This perception remains despite the widespread corporatisation of ANSPs, (air navigation service providers), which has pulled them away from the firm embrace of government.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A GERMAN manufacturer of brewery equipment has joined with a Luxembourg beer brewer to commercialise a technique that they claim can save 55 per cent of the energy required for boiling wort, a major process in beer production.…

BY RICHARD HURST
MONEY laundering is all about fake respectability, transforming the seedy and ill-gotten into the legitimate and well-earned; so in Africa, where better to launder criminal money than through the continent’s most developed economy, South Africa.

Mike Savage, partner at Ernst & Young South Africa, said that the biggest problem facing African governments wanting to seriously tackle money laundering is to pinpoint the movement of funds that are moved across porous borders in a bid to cover tracks and conceal sources.…

Keith Nuthall
SHIP’S masters are always alert to the threat posed by stowaways, but not necessarily when those uninvited passengers have scales, fins and gills. Both the International Maritime Organisation and the European Union are working to tighten global environmental regulations that prevent the accidental transportation of such illegal aliens in ballast water.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is slowly moving towards the setting up of a compulsory insurance scheme that would support inventors and innovators in pursuing legal claims against patent infringers. At present many patents, especially those taken out by individuals and small companies, are openly violated by companies who gamble that the holder has neither the resources nor expertise to mount the necessary legal challenge.…

Keith Nuthall
IMAGINATIVE fraudsters have stolen a march on the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) by issuing a fake insurance policy in its name, which claims to protect businesses against the effect of an earlier false ICC insurance guarantee that the global business group unmasked this summer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GENERAL Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organisation has streamlined and simplified the international patent application filing system as operated under its Patent Cooperation Treaty. Delegates agreed to integrate two key processes, namely an international search looking for existing patents that might throw doubt on the uniqueness of an invention and an examination of the application itself, checking whether it is novel, involves an inventive step and can be exploited industrially.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A DUTCH company has won a European Business Award for the Environment for developing a green car insurance policy that it claims will help the environment, prolong the life of cars and reduce insurance premiums by five to 10 per cent.…

Keith Nuthall
SIGNIFICANT progress has been made in preparing a comprehensive shipping and port security code, which is to be agreed by the International Maritime Organisation this December. The second meeting of the UN agency’s security working group developed detailed guidelines on how governments, national agencies, local administrations and shipping and port authorities should detect security threats and take preventive measures against them.…