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BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOO many cooks spoil the broth. Or do they? As far as the world’s fight against money laundering is concerned, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund think that they can bring extra flavour to the struggle waged by the OECD’s Financial Action Task Force (FATF).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEW International Code for the Security of Ships and Port Facilities, agreed by an International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Diplomatic Conference, held in London, last month (Dec) aims at reducing the industry’s exposure to terrorist attacks and resulting damage.…

BY MARK ROWE
BANGKOK’S new international airport will have no train link to the capital when it opens in 2005. Instead, five new roads will be built linking Bangkok to Nong Ngu Hao airport. Thai government officials said a rail link would not be a worthwhile investment because the city’s mass transit system would not be completed to provide it with effective connections.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
OFFICIALS from the United States and European Union have been meeting to solve differences over the Americans’ Container Security Initiative. The EU and the US have agreed to quickly explore signing a cooperation deal on operating a mutually acceptable container security system, but problems remain, for instance on the proposed US 24 hours rule, requiring carriers to provide American customs with cargo manifest information a day before it is loaded on board a USA-bound vessel.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
SOUTH African airports have been using a novel way of improving air traffic control safety: employing sheepdogs to scare birds from their runways and reduce the incidence of bird strikes on aircraft. Trials have been successful at Durban and Johannesburg’s international airports and civil aviation authorities elsewhere have expressed interest in the scheme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has called on the European Union and its Member States to scale down and harmonise requirements that they are making on businesses to store Internet and e-mail traffic data to help police and intelligence services fight organised crime and terrorists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGREEMENT in principle has been secured at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over a proposed EU Regulation writing into European law the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) convention on the control of harmful anti-fouling systems on ships, (AFS Convention).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation will next week (9-13 Dec) stage a Diplomatic Conference that should agree a new International Code for the Security of Ships and Port Facilities. This is to be attached as an annexe to this United Nations (UN) agency’s International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), and should come into force by next June, assuming there are no significant objections from any of the 146 IMO member countries which have already accepted SOLAS.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FISH Diseases Commission of the Office International des Epizooties, the global animal health organisation, has published a comprehensive set of easily understood information cards on all the main aquatic animal illnesses.

These are now available on line and include data on susceptible species, transmission, symptoms and treatment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved the writing into European law of the international Kimberly Process on certifying the origin of diamonds. Its aim is to prevent the sale of so-called blood diamonds, which are tainted by being trafficked from mines in African civil war areas.…