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ASIA-PACIFIC ATC
BY MATTHEW BRACE
WHEN IATA’s Director General and CEO, Pierre J Jeanniot, spoke at the opening of his organisation’s 58th AGM and the World Air Transport Summit in Shanghai on June 3, 2002, he lamented the industry’s losses of US$12 billion the previous year.…
BUSH TELEGRAPH
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE BUSH administration has told the Canadian government – bluntly – that if it wants to sue big US tobacco companies it must do it in Canadian courts, not American.
Washington has urged the US Supreme Court to reject Canada’s bid to revive its US$1 billion civil lawsuit against R.J…
ORGANICS FEATURE
BY PHILIP FINE
HEINZ did something this year that its rival large USA-based food producers seem to be shying away from. They put their own name on an organic product.
One would think other US companies would have, by now, employed the same strategy as Heinz: use organic-friendly Europe as a test-market for an eventual US launch of an organic product, but the idea seems to be slow in catching on.…
STEEL WIRE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF has claimed that EU treasuries were cheated of Euro 6 million because of a rules of origin scam involving steel wire, which has now been uncovered.
In its 2001-2002 annual report on the fight against fraud in the EU, OLAF tells of inquiries into information provided by British customs officers about an apparent increase in trade between India and the United Arab Emirates in steel wire.…
GOVERNMENT CAPACITY BUILDING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CONCEPT of nation building is not new. Powerful governments have for centuries sought to create pliant political administrations which would do their bidding, without being directly under their control. It is, after all, in noone’s interest for a territory to descent into chaos.…
AIRLINE ALLIANCE
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has closed competition investigations into the Star Alliance of Lufthansa, SAS and United Airlines; and the KLM-Northwest Airlines compact. This follows Star partners offering to surrender slots at Frankfurt airport to Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles and San Francisco.…
BALLAST ALIENS
Keith Nuthall
SHIP’S masters are always alert to the threat posed by stowaways, but not necessarily when those uninvited passengers have scales, fins and gills. Both the International Maritime Organisation and the European Union are working to tighten global environmental regulations that prevent the accidental transportation of such illegal aliens in ballast water.…
KYOTO LATEST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has taken a significant step towards the creation of a European Union (EU) greenhouse gas emissions trading system, as signatory governments of the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Convention gathered to meet in New Delhi this week, (October 23 to November 1).…
NIGERIA-CAMEROON
Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED Nations’ (UN) International Court of Justice has fixed the disputed maritime boundary between Nigeria and Cameroon, having decided that the contested Bakassi Peninsula should be considered part of Cameroon.
The court ruled that the maritime boundary should be set from the point of intersection of the centre of the navigable channel of the Akwayafe River with the straight line joining Bakassi Point and King Point, with many elements following previous Cameroon-Nigeria agreements dating back to the 1970’s.…
AIRLINE ALLIANCE
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has closed competition investigations threatening the future of two international aviation cooperation deals: the Star Alliance of Lufthansa, SAS and United Airlines; and the KLM-Northwest Airlines compact. Brussels halted inquiries into Star after its partners offered to surrender slots at Frankfurt airport to allow competing services on the Frankfurt to Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles and San Francisco routes.…