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BY RICHARD HURST
THE SOUTH African construction company Grinaker LTA has announced that it has won a SA Rand 1.7 billion contract to design, engineer, build and mange the 865 km natural gas pipeline running from Mozambique to South Africa.

It has been commissioned by SA chemicals giant Sasol and Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos de Mocambique to have the pipeline operational by 2004.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to update its administrative systems for monitoring its trade in textiles and clothing with the limited number of countries with whom it does not have trade agreements covering the sector. In particular, the European Commission has asked EU ministers to update rules on surveillance and the use of electronic documentation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ASK most people what they do with maple syrup and the majority will reply they use it to drizzle over pancakes in the morning. Maple syrup producers in Quebec, the world’s leading producer of the sweet treat, are trying to change that.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TASK force of world food standards body Codex Alimentarius has agreed detailed draft guidelines on how to assess the safety of genetically modified foodstuffs and on how to trace and remove from sale any product that is subsequently shown to pose a hazard to human health.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to seek authorisation from European Union member governments to negotiate the EU’s formal accession to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). Brussels said that as a non-member, the EU carried little weight in the adoption of essential international transport rules, being able to participate only if specifically invited.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE LOCATION of Afghanistan’s national museum in a southern Kabul suburb must have been idyllic when it opened in 1931, set against a pastoral backdrop of farmland and mountains. The museum was once one of the richest cultural repositories in the world, home to a collection of the most elegant antiquities from the Ashokan, Greek, Buddhist, Zoroastrian and Muslim periods.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to seek authorisation from European Union member governments to negotiate the formal accession of the EU to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). 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 rules in the transport sector.…

BY PHILIP FINE

FORD has confirmed in its annual report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission that it will be reducing its stockpile of the precious metal palladium, following a substantial decline in world prices. The vehicle manufacturer lost US$1 billion last year on its stocks of palladium, which is used in catalytic converters.…

Keith Nuthall
EXPERTS at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) are discussing a proposal to set up a non-profit company that would offer airports, ground handlers and airlines third-party war risk liability insurance cover from US$50 million per insured, should the commercial market withdraw such protection.…

Keith Nuthall
THE CANADIAN government has sought to dispel fears that it has unfairly retained trade restrictions on textile and clothing imports from China and Taiwan following last year’s decision to allow them to join the World Trade Organisation. In two letters to the WTO’s Textile Monitoring Bureau, Ottawa has claimed that remaining “quantitative restraints” comply with the two new members’ accession deals and the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…