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BY PAUL RIGG

THE SPANISH book trade is preparing for unexpectedly fast growth in digital sales, LIBER, the international book fair for the Spanish speaking world has been told. Iría Álvarez, trade manager at Santillana, one of Spain’s largest publishers, told delegates at the show in Madrid yesterday (Thursday), "With ebooks expected to take 14% of the US and 7% of the UK market in 2012, the transition is a going to be lot more rapid than we thought."…

BY ROBERT STOKES

GRUPO Planeta, Spain’s foremost publishing and media group, has started distributing its entire Spanish language catalogue through Apple España’s iBookstore.

e-books from 24 of Planeta’s imprints can now be downloaded via iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and www.itunes.es

Leading Spanish and international authors feature among more than a thousand digital titles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SUGAR has been at the centre of continuing concern about fraud draining European Union (EU) budgets of duty revenue. The latest operational report from EU anti-fraud unit OLAF (which reviewed 2009) recalled how fraudsters made millions of Euros from exporting 3,400 tonnes of sugar from the EU to neighbouring non-member state Croatia via the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.…

BY BILL CORCORAN

SITUATED 35 kilometres north of South Africa’s eastern metropolis Durban, the new King Shaka International Airport (KSIA) is designed to ensure the country’s Indian Ocean coast transport systems are integrated, for both commercial freight and passenger traffic.

The location of the new airport at the Durban’s current La Mercy airport complements the development of the Dube TradePort (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT) – an adjacent 2,060 hectare freight logistics facility.…

BY KATHERINE DUNN

EUROPEAN Union (EU) honey production will receive receive Euro EUR32 million annually for the next three years from the European Commission, to help fight the decimation of bee populations by disease. A European Commission communiqué said EU co-financing for national beekeeping subsidies in 2011 would increase from EUR25 million-per-year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON, MJ DESCHAMPS

IT is the classic chicken and egg scenario. To what extent do widespread networks of fuel filling stations need to be established offering compressed and liquefied natural gas (CNG/LNG) for a mass market of autos using these fuels to develop?…

BY ALAN OSBORN

‘RELOADING’ is a double scam that exploits human psychological weaknesses to give criminals a second bite at some unfortunate victims after ripping them off initially with bogus time-share, investment and other offers. Alan Osborn reports.

THE INCREASING ubiquity of personal information through social media services have encouraged 419 or advance fee frauds.…

BY MARK ROWE

ENERGY production that uses renewable sources or drastically reduces the use of fossil fuels are of course increasingly entering the market place, and with such transformation, innovation is at a premium. Demand for novel thinking and processes is being inflated in Europe by the European Union’s EU2020 objectives for a 20% reduction in CO2, and for 20% of energy to be generated from renewable energy sources by 2020.…

BY LEE ADENDOORF

ON the border between Italy and the Most Serene Republic of San Marino, Italian Finance Police are a common sight.

Their vigil took a technological twist last year with the appearance of mobile ‘plurisensor’ cameras possessing infrared and thermal sensors with the capacity to cross-reference motor registry databases, and detect vehicles carrying large sums of cash or valuables across the border.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE PROCESS of ‘unbundling’ in the European Union (EU) gas industry as called for under the EU’s third energy package, notably the gas directive 2009/73/EC, adopted in 2009, has come to a bit of a standstill. This will not last.…