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Grindrod sets date
for unbundling of
shipping business
Grindrod expects to
complete the process of
unbundling its shipping
business in the first half
of 2018, according to
executive chairman Mike
Hankinson.
France’s Total
buying Maersk Oil
for $7.45 billion
French oil company Total
has agreed to buy Danish
conglomerate AP Moller-
Maersk’s oil business for
$7.45 billion, in a deal that
will strengthen its position
in the North Sea.
Chamber of Mines
goes after Unctad
over faulty trade
misinvoicing report
The Chamber of
Mines has called on
the United Nations
Conference on Trade and
Development (Unctad)
to withdraw its report
on trade misinvoicing
and acknowledge its
shortcomings, saying that
the prestigious agency has
failed to collect its data
accurately.
Major heroin bust at
Beitbridge
A large company truck,
carrying heroin to the
value of over R2 million,
was intercepted upon
entering South Africa at
the Beitbridge border post,
according to a statement
released by the South
African Police Service.