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Maghreb Confidential /Archives

Archive n° 678 - 01/13/2005

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Spring Cleaning for Customs Service

A key institution in Algeria's economy, the Direction Generale des Douanes (Customs Service) is undergoing a spring cleaning a few months ahead of time this year. (...) [267 words] [$4.7]

ALGERIA

Algeria's Transportation Security

Algiers is setting up an agency to investigate air and sea mishaps to reassure foreign partners concerned by the lack of such a structure up to now. (...)

algiers

OIL LEGISLATION REVIVED

A draft bill to deregulate the oil industry that was frozen in 2002 because of opposition by the UGTA union is to be examined by leading ministers before the end of January and will then be put to a full-dress meeting of the cabinet. (...) [85 words] [$1.5]

BLANKY BARRED FROM ENASUCRE DEAL

Contrary to what had previously been decided, Algeria's Blanky group won't be acquiring the state-owned sugar refinery Enasucre. (...) [62 words] [$1.5]

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U.S.-EURO CEREALS WAR

The US Department of Agriculture has offering a $20 million guarantee package to Moroccan importers willing to buy American farm products. (...) [68 words] [$1.5]

ONCF RAIL COMPANY SEES BIG

The state-controlled Office National des Chemins de Fer is going to be transformed into a limited liability company by the end of the year. (...) [93 words] [$1.5]

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RAFFARIN AND RETINUE IN TUNIS

According to our sources, French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin will have a number of ministers in tow when he visits Tunis on Jan. (...) [50 words] [$1.5]

POLITICAL BACK-BITING IN BEN AROUS

The coordinating committee of the ruling RCD party in the Ben Arous area where president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali did poorly in the recent elections has reportedly fallen out with the party's leadership in Tunis. (...) [78 words] [$1.5]

NEWMAN SHIPPING RE-OPENS TUNIS-ANTWERP LINE

Belgium's Newman Shipping Agency has signed a partnership agreement with Global Shipping in Tunis to re-open a shipping line between Antwerp and the ports of La Goulette, Sousse and Sfax on Jan. (...) [61 words] [$1.5]

PARIS MAYOR AND PASTRYMAKER

Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe who had planned to sign copies of his latest book at the Institut Francais de la Cooperation in Tunis was denied the possibility --- it is an official French organization – and dedicated his book instead at the ? (...) [55 words] [$1.5]

TURKISH FLAG ON SUBWAY

Officials from the Tunis mass transit system were obliged to take down the Turkish flag they had been planted on subway trains and buses in the capital in honor of the Turkish team taking part in the world handball championship in Tunis. (...) [53 words] [$1.5]

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FRANCE OFFERS ITS WARES

French business circles are doing their best to profit from the fallout from president Jacques Chirac's somewhat strained visit to Tripoli at the end of November. (...) [198 words] [$1.5]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	SPAIN/MOROCCO
	ICEX
	ICEX, the Spanish foreign trade agency, will join Spain's employers federation CEOE in leading a delegation of businessmen in the food and drink, construction, electronic and computer trades to Morocco in an initiative linked to a visit by king Juan Carlos between Jan. (...) [48 words] [$1.5]


	MOROCCO
	SUCRERIES RAFFINERIES DU TADLA
	SUCRERIES RAFFINERIES DU TADLA (SUTA), the Sucreries Raffineries de Cannes (SURAC), the Group des Sucreries de Betterave du Gharb and Loukkos (Sunabel) and Sucrerie Raffinerie de l'Oriental (Sucrafor) were called to a meeting by Moroccan industry minister Salaheddine Mezouar, who is in charge of their sector, to discuss imple-menting a cost-reduction plan this year. (...) [58 words] [$1.5]


	MOROCCO
	LUIGI LAVAZZA SPA
	LUIGI LAVAZZA SPA and the firm Cafes du Sahara, which processes and distributes coffee goods in Morocco, have reached a new retailing accord. (...) [53 words] [$1.5]


	GERMANY/MOROCCO
	KFW
	KFW in Germany has awarded a 50 million euro loan to ONE, Morocco's electricity operator, to build a 60 MW wind farm at Cape Sim south of Essaouira. (...) [32 words] [FREE]


	KUWAIT/TUNISIA
	BTKD
	BTKD, the Banque Tunisio-Koweitienne de Developpment, could shortly overhaul its management. (...) [27 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	SFCE
	SFCE (CFAO group) will equip and install computers and software for the Algerian customs service (Direction Generale des Douanes) to extend its SIGAD computer system. (...) [40 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/FRANCE
	ODM
	ODM (France) is to deliver 100 fire extinguishers to the Algerian civil protection service under a 622,000 euro contract. (...) [39 words] [FREE]

WHO'S WHO


	TUNISIA
	MOHAMED MISSAOUI
	Changes are underway on the editorial staff of the pro-government French language daily La Presse. (...) [108 words] [$1.5]


	MOROCCO
	SAAD BENDIDI
	The CEO of the RMA Watanya insurance company and deputy boss of Othman Benjelloun's Finance. (...) [100 words] [$1.5]


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	MICHELE ALLIOT-MARIE
	French defense minister Michele Alliot-Marie will pay a visit to Libya at the end of February and not January, as previously scheduled. (...) [73 words] [$1.5]