The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB), in consultation with the International Chamber of Shipping, INTERTANKO and BIMCO, today dismissed a number of recent press reports claiming that pirates off the Somali coast target vessels in advance, allegedly making use of a network of international contacts.
ICC/ BASIS stressed the importance of Internet governance issues that will promote economic growth, build human and institutional capacities, and address development needs at the open consultations of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).
The total number of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden and off east-coast Somalia so far in 2009 has already overtaken the figure for all of 2008, according to statistics collated by the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC).
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has confirmed the renewed composition of the 50-member multistakeholder advisory group responsible for providing advice in the run up to the upcoming, UN-linked Internet Governance Forum (IGF) which will take place in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt in November this year.
In an unprecedented move, chief executives from some of the world’s leading companies have called on governments to more effectively and robustly implement the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the CEOs threw their support behind the world’s only universal anti-corruption instrument, stating that it “holds the promise of curbing corruption and creates a level playing field for all participants in the global economy.” They praised the Convention, describing it as “an essential instrument in the fight against corruption,” but they underlined the need for the establishment of an implementation review mechanism at the next Conference of States Parties to be held in Doha in November 2009.
Access to information is paramount to effective business conduct and is often taken for granted by many entrepreneurs. But without funding from the US Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the opportunity to attend the 6th World Chambers Congress in Kuala Lumpur in June this year would not have been possible for over 12 participants.
A global agreement on climate change under the auspices of the United Nations is the best way of ensuring international cooperation to resolve this vital issue, ICC said in statement to environment ministers from the world’s most highly industrialized countries.
A dramatic increase in activity by Somali pirates led to a near doubling in the number of ships attacked during the year’s first quarter compared with the same period in 2008, according to a report issued today by the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Maritime Bureau (IMB).
The Dubai Chamber of Commerce has announced the 18 winners of its prestigious Mohammad bin al Rachid Maktoum business awards for outstanding entrepreneurship and contribution to the development of the United Arab Emirates.
The international judging panel for the fourth World Chambers Competition today announced the 19 finalists in the four categories, Best Unconventional Project, Best Small Business Project, Best International Project and Best Networking Project.
Any international regime governing access and benefit sharing for genetic resources should facilitate cross-border exchange of resources and encourage both private and public investment in bio-trade, experts from the breeding and bio-trade sectors told a conference this week.
The development and global deployment of advanced low emissions technologies to address climate change will require appropriate institutional frameworks, intellectual property rights protection, and innovative funding mechanisms, ICC told the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The upswing in piracy off eastern Somalia reported last month by the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has continued into April with a spate of attacks that threaten East African trade.
Information and communications technologies (ICTs) will continue to play a major role to ensure long-term economic growth, the ICC Commission on E-business, IT and Telecoms (EBITT) said today.
The ICC Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau (CIB) has developed the
ICC today congratulated the G20 leaders for taking a multilateral approach to resolving the world economic crisis. In particular, ICC applauded their agreement to kick-start trade by significantly increasing trade finance, rapidly concluding the Doha Round of trade negotiations, and strengthening promises to avoid protectionist measures.
Leaders of the G20 countries must coordinate their national policies to end the global recession, support a monitoring system to honour previous promises to reject protectionism, and restore trade financing to more normal levels, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) said today.
March 2009 has seen a spike in pirate activity off east-coast Somalia, as reported to the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre.a spike in pirate activity off east-coast Somalia, as reported to the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre.
With global trade expected to register its biggest decline this year since World War II, ICC called today on the upcoming G20 summit in London to coordinate measures to allow private banks to ramp-up their provision of trade finance.
The ICC Banking Commission said a recent survey of major international banks found that the Basel II charter “has eroded the incentive of banks” to provide trade finance.
The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has identified a number of suspect shipments of Hydrogenated Palm Oil emanating from Indonesia.