LAST WEEK'S TOP STORIES ON FTW ONLINE

Air force to help fight
piracy in West Africa
The Nigerian Air Force
(NAF) has signed
a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with
the Nigerian Maritime
Administration and Safety
Agency (NIMASA) in the
fight against crime in the
nation’s coastal waters,
reports African Cargo News.
Another airline fined
for cargo price fixing
A Canadian court fined
LATAM Airlines the
equivalent of R10 million
after the carrier admitted
taking part in an air cargo
price-fixing cartel, Canada’s
Competition Bureau said.
Top 10 container
ports 2013
Containerisation
International has just
published a comprehensive
guide to the world’s Top 100
container ports.
This supplies not only the
latest figures for the ports
(up to end 2012) but also a
broad summary of the ports’
activity in that year, and key
data for each one.
Larger ships through
Panama Canal could
be too big for US ports
How will Panama Canal
expansion impact shipping
and port networks across
the Americas?
Chicken producer
reiterates need for
import protection
South Africa’s largest
poultry producer, Rainbow
Chicken, has issued a
statement to reiterate
the industry’s need for
protection from imports
after it recorded a 94
percent slump in profit.