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Articles in November 2005 issue of African Review of Business and Technology

• Grow your own fuel: Ronald Watts looks at the looming shortage of oil in the world and the lessons countries here could learn. Is this the way Africa should be growing?(Power Supply)
  by Watts, Ronald
• Bearish outlook for cocoa futures.(Commodity Report)
• The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) through its institution.(Briefly)
• Nigeria awards gas-power contracts.
• Platinum soars to 25-year high.(Commodity Report)(Brief Article)
• Editor's note.(Nigeria with great economic condition)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
  by Phelan, Jonquil
• Shell increases output and security: Nigeria's largest oil partner is doing well under its local MD who has an intimate knowledge of the social tensions in the Delta region. Conflict continues but the outlook is promising.(Company Focus)
• Cape Town welcomes Africa Oil Week.(Business Travel)
• Shipping takeover brings customer benefits: Danish shipping group AP Moeller-Maersk has gained control of 95.6 per cent of Dutch shipper Royal P & O Nedlloyd. Morten Lund, Line Agency Manager for Maersk Nigeria, tells African Review this is good news
• Redefining energy.(Commercial Review)
• The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has adopted the Shire-Zambezi waterways project as a major regional infrastructure development initiative.(Briefly)
• The elevator, escalator and crane industry.(Advertisement)
• Copper records all-time highs.(Commodity Report)(Brief Article)
• Finacle in Africa--5 years of leadership.(REGIONAL VIEW)
• Total power solutions from Leventis Power Systems Ltd.(Nigeria)
• New herald of Africa's renaissance: Nigeria, the second biggest economy south of the Sahara, and the world's sixth largest oil exporter, is turning the corner, thanks to healthy growth, robust external finances, and political stability, though formidable
  by Siddiqi, Moin
• SA to be a top offshore service provider.(Commercial Review)
• Safmarine Computer Services.(Briefly)
• Certified fumigation and pest control on a global scale.
• Gold moves up.(Commodity Report)(Brief Article)
• United Bank for Africa: marching towards leadership.(CASE STUDY)(Company Profile)
• Oil brings in a brighter future: rarely has the price of energy showed more volatility than this year. More foreign investors want to come in, but there are some long-standing issues that have got to be settled first.(Nigeria)
• Awards for Port Harcourt hotel.(Business Travel)
• Big orders in Burundi.(Commercial Review)
• Omatek Computers Limited of Nigeria.(Briefly)
• IT as a way of life.(information technology)(3i Infotech)(Interview)
• Arabica futures move up to six-week high.(Brief Article)
• The path to banking leadership: technology as an enabler.(Company Profile)
  by Iyengar, Balaji
• Local manufacturer transforms the IT sector: Nigeria's Omatek was the first company to build computer casings and speakers in Africa. Now it is enjoying a boom as the IT market explodes. And it is exporting too ...(Company Focus)
• Executives' calendar.(Calendar)
• South African Airways.(Briefly)
• Namibia's decade of development.(Business Travel)(Namibia Tourism Development Programme)(Brief Article)
• Guiding investment to East Africa.(Brief Article)
• Crushing: options for optimised flow sheets; Manufacturers of crushers and crushing plant are offering more specific processing solutions for construction, mining and recycling, writes K Casteel.(Mining)
  by Casteel, K.
• Transport sector in transition: concessioning has been chosen as the way forward for the run-down rail transport system. And Virgin Nigeria has settled in well as the country's prime air carrier. Bola Olowo reports.(Nigeria)
  by Olowo, Bola
• Best money still on dollar futures.(Oil News)
• Stabilini Visinoni Ltd.(Briefly)
• Forecast movements against the dollar.(Financial Forecast)(Illustration)
• The threat of globalisation.(Brief Article)
• Copper makes a brilliant comeback: worldwide deficits mean the red-metal market is red-hot right now says Priscilla Ross. Many African producers have read the trends and are riding the boom.(Mining)
  by Ross, Priscilla
• The promises and pitfalls of privatisation: the BPE is making good progress with the high-stake sell-offs, but the courts are being kept busy too. Bola Olowo reports on what all Nigeria's business community is talking about.(Nigeria)
  by Olowo, Bola
• Keeping an eye on hydromachinery: Dr T Mabbett explains the complexity of condition monitoring systems when they are applied to hydropower plants. It's a sector that demands constant assessment.(Power Supply)
  by Mabbett, T.
• Exchange rates.(Financial Forecast)
• International well construction.(Briefly)
• Angola.(Oil News)(production-sharing agreement)(Brief Article)
• JSE's alternative exchange.(Jamaica Stock Exchange)(The Alternative Exchange )(Brief Article)
• Ways to safeguard essential supplies: ecosystem investment through waste reduction and conservation is the best possible insurance policy says the US's Worldwatch Institute. This year's news bulletins have certainly shown the value of 'Nature's Factories'
• Mobile phones revolutionise the banking industry.(IT News)
• BPM--the next wave in banking: BPM helps banks across the world save time, save money, and add value to internal or external customers.(FEATURE)
  by Fernandes, Merwin
• Oil Africa--unlocking African value.(Oil News)
• Federal Executive Council of Nigeria.(Briefly)
• Gabon.(Oil News)(First Africa Oil)(Brief Article)
• Guide to doing business with Ghana.(German Business Association)(Brief Article)
• Pick the right pallet racking: pallet racking, if wrongly chosen, can ruin a warehouse operation. It is much more complex than it might seem, and must not be considered in isolation from the chosen means of handling and the products' dynamics.(Material Ha
• Supply chain management is big business in SA: "bits and bytes are easy to move. Containers are a little heavier," writes Kevin Simpson, marketing director at SCS Africa.(Company Focus)
  by Simpson, Kevin
• Data day decisions: almost overnight, it seems, we're all drowning in data. Yet increasingly, ironically, it seems harder and harder to get a grip on company information. Just what is going on with data? asks Karen Young.(Information Technology)
  by Young, Karen
• Nigeria plans another LNG expansion.(Oil News)
• Safmarine.(Briefly)
• Powerscreen launches new equipment.(Mining)
• Libya.(Oil News)(Brief Article)
• Canada Investment Fund for Africa.(Actis)(Brief Article)
• Spreading and compacting in the fast lane: with a BC 672 EB soil compactor from BOMAG on board a contractor in France is completing a major job in time. And the operator is happy too--he's reluctant to let anyone else have a turn.(Company Focus)
• Basel 2 and the South African banks: the new code, Basel 2, replaces an institutional approach to analysis of credit risk with an upgraded systematic model. It will have a direct impact on African banks, including the technologies and systems they use, sa
  by Siddiqi, Moin
• Zambia's development goals move closer: low-cost houses and cheap clean water are being supplied to some of Zambia's informal-settlement dwellers--just as the Millennium Development Goals stipulate.(Construction)
  by Nkonde, Humphrey
• Quality issues impact Kenyan tea prices.(Commodity Report)
• Volvo Penta.(Briefly)
• The Hyster Fortens[TM]: delivering more through innovation.(Material Handling)
• Cote d'Ivoire.(Oil News)(Brief Article)
• Nigeria's Bureau of Private Enterprises.(investigation of potentional bidders )(Brief Article)
• Keeping networks "hurricane ready".(Power News)
• Tourist spending up in Kenya.(Business Travel)