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Gridlock snags island economy: traffic congestion is costing Mauritius around $100m as workers find themselves trapped for hours at a time in traffic. The problem is so bad that solutions proposed include a free public transport system. Nasseem Ackbarally reports from Port Louis.(MAURITIUS)
Magazine article from: African Business; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...transport to his office in the capital, Port Louis, comments: Before 6.30am, you rule...just half an hour from Vacoas to Port Louis, a distance of 30km. But if, heaven...increasing concentration of employment in Port Louis, traffic congestion has steadily...
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SYSTRA Consulting, Inc.(joint venture with Louis Berger awarded contract by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey)(Sacramento Regional Transit District)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Railway Track and Structures; 10/1/2000; 63 words
; SYSTRA Consulting, Inc., in a joint venture with The Louis Berger Group, was selected to assist the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for a study to evaluate the potential of extending PATH service from Newark Penn Station to...
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The battle for the Chagos archipelago: Mauritius is preparing to go to the International Court of Justice to re-claim its sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago. Nasseem Ackbarally reports from Port-Louis.(Mauritius)
Magazine article from: African Business; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...of the British High Commission in Port-Louis demanding that Great Britain allow...abject poverty on the outskirts of Port-Louis--at Cassis, Cite Vallijee, Pte-aux-Sabl...social ills, he wrote. In Cassis, near Port-Louis, Charlesia Alexis and Aurelie Talat...
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Farming the riches of the sea: Mauritius has the potential to rapidly develop an aquaculture industry by farming marine and freshwater fish in its lagoons. The island plans to export locally grown fish on a large scale in the coming years, Nasseem Ackbarally reports from Port-Louis.(MAURITIUS)(Zablon Karingi Muthaka won the Youth Business International Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 )
Magazine article from: African Business; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...of the market, says Daroomalingum Mauree, principal fisheries officer at the Agro-industry and Fisheries Ministry in Port-Louis, the man behind the development of aquaculture in the island. [GRAPHIC OMITTED] In a bid to ensure a fair share of this...
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Migrant labour underpins industry: Mauritius' booming textiles industry is having to depend more and more heavily on imported labour, mostly from India and China. Nasseem Ackbarally reports from Port Louis.(Mauritius)
Magazine article from: African Business; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...complaining about the food they say they are forced to eat. The latest incident took place at a textile factory near Port-Louis, when 15 Indian workers out of the 186 employed by this factory were expelled after going on strike for a week. They...
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Sugar loses its sweetness: the sugar industry in Mauritius is facing a huge threat. The European Commission is planning to cut the price it pays for this commodity by more than a third over the next two years. Nasseem Ackbarally reports from Port-Louis.(MAURITIUS)
Magazine article from: African Business; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Mauritius is banking on a concerted effort to lobby friendly European countries in order to reverse the European Commission's plans to drastically cut the price it pays for sugar. For the last 30 years, the sugar industry on the island has benefitted from the 1974 Sugar Protocol which has
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BAT closure could hit tobacco industry: BAT's decision to stop manufacturing cigarettes in Mauritius has dealt a severe blow to the island's small tobacco industry. Nasseem Ackbarally reports from Port Louis.(MAURITIUS)
Magazine article from: African Business; 8/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; At least 100 manufacturing jobs will be lost, but it is local farmers who will mainly suffer with BAT's (formerly British American Tobacco) decision to stop purchasing tobacco from Mauritian smallholder farmers. Tobacco cultivation in Mauritius could disappear, and that would be the latest blow to
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Mauritius turns to bagasse to cut power costs: Mauritius is producing an increasing amount of electricity from local renewable resources, such as bagasse, obtained from sugar cane to reduce its reliance on hydro-carbons. Nasseem Ackbarally reports from Port-Louis.(ENERGY)
Magazine article from: African Business; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Mauritius is increasingly turning to renewable resources to meet its energy requirements and bagasse is becoming an important source of energy. Bagasse is obtained as a by-product of the island's all-important sugar cane industry. After sugar cane is crushed to extract the juice to make sugar, the
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Tourism to lead economic revival: with the price of sugar tumbling and the market for textiles being squeezed, Mauritius is facing a precarious economic future. As Nasseem Ackbarally reports from Port-Louis, the island is now looking to tourism to revive its fortunes.(MAURITIUS)
Magazine article from: African Business; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Mauritius is looking forward to tourism, 'the only bright spot in its economic landscape', for much more growth and development, as its two biggest pillars--sugar and textile--are threatened by outside forces and the economy is on red alert. The island has declared 2006 as the revival year for
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Agri-business takes centre stage: thousands of agri-business enterprises are being established in Mauritius. With government support and incentives, these companies are processing and exporting agricultural products to new markets in Europe and Australia. Nasseem Ackbarally reports from Port-Louis.(MAURITIUS)
Magazine article from: African Business; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Revenues from Mauritius' non-sugar agricultural sector contracted to under $81m in 2005. Alarmed at this trend, Agriculture Minister Arvin Boolell has given new vigour to agri-business by elaborating a national and regional strategy for the development for the sector. We cannot sit back, relax and
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