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UK Govt commits to Uits commitment to address
K Government has announced
the urgent lack of cold-chain in
addressing urgent lack of Africa as developing countries
will receive £4 million to drive
down harmful emissions from
cold-chain in Africa outdated air conditioning units,
cooling refrigeration, and cold
supply chains. The funding will
be provided this summer to the
United Nations Environment
Programme, the University of
Birmingham, the Government
of Rwanda, and fellow project
partners as part of Defra’s £21
million Sustainable Cooling
and Cold Chain Solutions
programme. Announcing the
funding at a reception at No. 10
Downing Street recently (20th
April), Environment Secretary
Thérèse Coffey said: “This
funding will help developing
countries to play their part in
tackling climate change and
communities across the world
with storing food and medicines
more efficiently - as well as
support farmers to increase
their productivity.”

ONE upgrades fortnightly Charter for Protection and Governance
Africa, India, Middle East of Data in International Trade issued

service to weekly

cean Network Express (ONE)
Oannounced that the Africa, India, and
Middle East (AIM) service will increase
its sailing frequency from fortnightly to
weekly starting from May 2023. “This is
part of ONE’s commitment to enhance
our services in Africa. This upgrade to
a weekly sailing frequency, will provide
greater flexibility and convenience to cater
to the dynamic needs of ONE’s customers,” hippers and forwarders in International Trade that sets out
reads the release. The increased frequency Sorganizations are calling for the minimum arrangements for data
will begin with the Westbound sailing improved standards of data protection security and confidentiality that
arriving at Jebel Ali on May 6, 2023, and and confidentiality in digital trading providers and operators of digital
the Eastbound sailing from Tema on June and booking systems, in a joint booking and trading platforms
9, 2023. The AIM service rotation remains statement issued recently. FIATA, should adopt and incorporate in
unchanged as follows: Jebel Ali - Mundra - the International Federation of their End-User Agreements (EUAs).
Nhava Sheva - Colombo - Durban - Tema Freight Forwarders Associations, Recommendations in the Charter
- Tincan - Apapa - Durban - Jebel Ali and the Global Shippers Forum have seek to enable a safe and trustworthy
(Weekly frequency) jointly issued an agreed Charter for environment for conducting business
Protection and Governance of Data based on a level playing field.

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