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BY MARK ROWE
CATHAY Pacific Airways and DHL International plan to start a dedicated regional express cargo joint-venture this year. Airlines including China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines – for Shanghai-linked volumes – will fly to key business and feed cargo into Cathay’s international long-haul network.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to seek authorisation from European Union member governments to negotiate the formal accession of the EU to the International Maritime Organisation. Brussels said that in spite of the EU’s economic strength and the independent political power of its institutions, it carried little weight in the adoption of essential international safety rules in the sea transport sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ARCANE procedures of the world’s food standards body the Codex Alimentarius could be made simpler and more transparent, because of the launch joint review of its work by the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation and the World Health Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ARCANE procedures of the world’s food standards body the Codex Alimentarius could be made simpler and more transparent, because of the launch joint review of its work by the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation and the World Health Organisation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN consultancies Wardrop Engineering and Micon International are to offer joint advice on metallurgical projects, from initial resource estimation, feasibility studies and operational analysis, to site closure. Micon’s specialisms include ore reserve estimation, metallurgical design, mineral property valuation and monitoring of project development for international banking syndicates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DRAFT recommendations on improving the treatment of oil spills have been agreed by the International Maritime Organisation, during the UN agency’s third research and development Forum on High Density Oil Spill Response.

Experts present discussed the particular problems posed by this kind of pollution, including its high viscosity and tendency to sink.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations has highlighted how some member countries have been using their money laundering laws to criminalise corruption, while employing bribery or corruption laws to outlaw money laundering. A report by the UN Secretary General’s department on how the organisation’s 1996 declaration against Corruption and Bribery in International Commercial Transactions has lead to national laws being tightened regarding these crimes lists a number of case studies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and the League of Arab States have agreed to boost cooperation on improving intellectual property standards in Arab countries, especially copyright. The two bodies have agreed to help organise conferences on copyright in the region, especially regarding the Internet.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is poised to release tenders for work in Kazakhstan, funded by a US$45 million loan, which will help pay for the modernisation of its electricity utility’s transmission management systems and communications networks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATURAL gas exploration companies working in the inhospitable Snøhvit field, off the far north coast of Norway, should be granted tax privileges, following acceptance of a scheme by the Surveillance Authority of the European Free Trade Area. Gas will be landed onshore via pipeline, cooled, then liquefied for ship transportation to international markets.…