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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL questionnaire on container transport insurance has been launched by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, (UNCITRAL), which wants to kick start efforts to create a UN convention on liability for multi-modal transportation.

The UN agency has pointed out that despite the huge growth in container movements, (from zero in 1965 to 225.3 million in 2000), there is still no global set of rules governing responsibility for cargo carried by combined transport operations involving ships, rail and roads.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission today (Tuesday) announced proposed new legislation to bring in compulsory minimum insurance requirements for all air carriers and aircraft operators flying within, into, out of or overflying the European Union. It is also considering the merits of creating a mutual fund in the probable event that governments decided against maintaining the current state guarantees after the end of October this year.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A NEW “smart card” for health and safety to be launched in the UK next year could have important implications for insurance companies in the occupational safety and health field. The so-called Prevencard is being marketed by the Spanish company Grupo Prevencard International using technology developed under the EU’s 5th Framework Programme for research.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL questionnaire on container transport insurance has been launched by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, (UNCITRAL), which wants to kick start efforts to create a UN convention on liability for multi-modal transportation.

The UN agency has pointed out that despite the huge growth in container movements, (from zero in 1965 to 225.3 million in 2000), there is still no global set of rules governing responsibility for cargo carried by combined transport operations involving ships, rail and roads.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
DJIBOUTI’S government has signed a management contract with Dubai Ports International Authority to run the east African country’s international airport, the UN has reported. The Gulf authority is to improve the airport’s services and infrastructure and reform its fee structure and collection.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PRACTICAL tool to help businesses evaluate the entire impact of workplace accidents, and conduct cost-benefit analyses of measures they can take to prevent them, has been launched by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
PHANTOM ships may become less common on the high seas because of a Commonwealth-based law dating back to 1906, that was recently invoked for the first time in a Hong Kong court.

Section 44 of the Chinese territory’s Marine Insurance Act (MIA) says that a theft liability risk does not attach to a ship’s cargo if the ship’s managers had no intention from the outset of sailing to an agreed destination; it was used to defeat insurance claims made against mainland-China based and state-owned defendant China Insurance Company Limited by the owner of missing cargo worth US$2.5 million aboard the merchant vessel, the Pacifica.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Agenda for Action has been drawn up at a UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) workshop on boosting “Clean Coal Combustion in Small and Medium Sized Boilers in Central and Eastern Europe.” The plan has been approved by experts from the region, along with those from western Europe, the USA, the World Coal Institute, the World Energy Council, IEA Coal Research and UNECE.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL convention improving the right of access by children to separated parents who live in different countries is expected to become European law, with the European Commission proposing that the European Union signs up to its terms.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA and KEITH NUTHALL
CERAMIC manufacturers in Sri Lanka are seeking changes in national laws restricting the quarrying of paddy lands, because they contain premium deposits of kaolin. The country’s Ceramics Industry Task Force has asked its national government to revoke certain provisions of the Agrarian Development Act, which ban the mining of paddy lands, even if they are not being used for agriculture or have ceased to be viable for food production.…