Search Results for: South Africa

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A FRENCH company is launching its car repair warranty service in Sri Lanka, claiming that it is the first of its kind in south Asia. SAGE Guarantee Automobile said that it is investing Euro 1 million in the scheme, which it would use as a springboard to attack the Indian market.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
FOUR consortia have pre-qualified onto a short-list in a bid to modernise the main airport of Mozambique, namely Maputo International Airport. The project is estimated to be valued at US$13.6 million and will include an upgrade of passenger check in, cargo handling and the ground assistance to the aircraft.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
MOROCCO has been granted a loan of Euro 120 million, (about GBPounds 73 million), by the European Investment Bank, to help extend its electricity connections with Spain and Algeria. The project is part of an ambitious exchange of electrical power between Europe and north Africa, designed to help boost the liberalisation of the electrical energy markets in the EU’s African neighbours.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
FINANCIAL restrictions should be imposed on companies, businessmen, ministers and soldiers charged with involvement in the shameless plundering of the mineral resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a United Nations (UN) committee established to investigate the problem has concluded.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ORNAMENTAL plant buyers will be given a new research tool to expand their range of knowledge about African tropical plants via a new European Commission and the Netherlands government funded research project PROTA, where African and European experts will review and document existing knowledge on around 7,000 species.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
THE RICHES that can be made from the illegal ivory trade are well known, but what of illicit imports and exports of rare flowers. Shipping protected orchids to Europe, Japan and north America can make criminals a lot of money.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AERONAUTICAL Telecommunication Planning Task Force of the International Civil Aviation Organisation has concluded that many problems impeding air industry communications in Africa are down to “human factors in terms of lack of…resources and training,” as well as shortages of networks and equipment.…

BY RICHARD HURST
TRADE and Investment South Africa Transport Industries – a Pretoria government unit – and the country’s Department of Trade and Industry have announced that they will jointly launch a council to seek export opportunities in the railway equipment market, notably crushed stone ballast.…