1963 a m o u n t e d to 2 per cen t and up to the end of 1966 to 4.8 pe r cent. The excep t iona l inc rease in the G e r m a n sha re dur ing the last two yea r s shows t ha t i t is useful for G e r m a n firms which h a v e not ye t ful ly e s t ab l i shed t h e m s e l v e s in the Afr ica t rade to en t e r into work ing pa r t ne r s h i p s w i th firms in o the r Common M a r k e t coun t r i e s - - f i rms , t ha t is to say, wi th Af r i can exper ience .

German Nuclear Ship "Otto Hahn" Delivered in February

NS "Ot to Hahn" was t r ans fe red on the first of Feb rua ry from the "Howaldts- w e r k e - Deutsche Wer f t A G ' , H a m b u r g and Kiel, to the "Gesel lschaf t ffir Kernener - g i e v e r w e r t u n g in Schiffbau

und Schiffahrt LTD' , Hamburg . The t r ia l run still took p lace wi th a n aux i l i a ry motor . The reac to r p lan t has h o w e v e r also b e e n comple te ly ins ta l led, bu t i t is still w i thou t its u r a n i u m fuel e lements . The so- ca l led "cold t r ial" of the r eac to r p lan t w i t hou t its fuel e l ement s is to be comple ted b y March. At the same t ime the r eac to r nuc leus is to be t es ted and phys ica l ly gauged. The fuel e l ement s will be inse r ted into t he ship ' s r eac to r p l an t a t t he end of March or the b e g i n n i n g of Apr i l so t ha t the p lan t may b e g radua l ly s t a r t ed up. Af te r successful per- fo rmance tests in the sh ipya rd of the en t i re mach ine ry it is hoped to u n d e r t a k e t r ia l t r ips wi th the r eac to r p lan t in the Balt ic in the summer of 1968. Once the reac tor p l an t has b e e n f ina l ly accepted, ex t ens ive t r ips a re p l a n n e d for research and ex- pe r imen ta l purposes . A p a r t f rom this research pro- gram, the "Otto Hahn" is, however , also to take pa r t in the regu la r t rade se rv ice in order to p rove the re l iab i l i ty of a nuc l ea r - pow er ed ship in the role of a commerc ia l vessel . The ,O t to H a h n ' , bu i l t as an ore carr ier , will be employed on all k inds of ore routes. To bui ld he r costs abou t 55 mil l ion DM.

The compet i t ion b e t w e e n Good Export the two European colour

Chances for t e lev i s ion sys tems PAL and SECAM appear s r ecen t ly to

German Colour W h a v e gone in f avour of the

System PAL G e r m a n PAL-system. The French colour t e lev i s ion

indus t ry is t roub led par t i cu la r ly b y the fact t ha t W a l t e r Bruch, i n v e n t o r of the PAL-process, has deve loped a smal l add i t iona l gadge t which can be a t tached to e v e r y PAL-set, t h e r eby enab l ing it to r ece ive SECAM-transmiss ions . This opens up pros- pects of se l l ing PAL colour t e l ev i s ion sets no t on ly in par t s of Belgium bo rde r ing on Germany , in Luxemburg, and in Switzer land, bu t e v e n in F rance itself. Thus in Eas te rn F rance for example a lmos t no co lour t e lev i s ion sets h a v e b e e n sold b e c a u s e people are still wa i t ing for r e a s o n a b l y pr iced sets, capab le of r ece iv ing b o t h sys tems. France mus t the re fo re expec t impor ts whi l e expor t chances d imin ish corres- pondingly . On ly recent ly , e v e n Rumania , which at

first appea red to be a ce r t a in cus tomer for SECAM, dec ided in f avour of the PAL-system. By and large, the G e r m a n colour t e l ev i s ion i ndus t ry reckons to h a v e good expor t chances also in Eas te rn Europe, and tha t all the more so as the Sovie t Union seems to be w a v e r i n g in its or ig ina l dec is ion in f avour of SECAM. Since colour t e l ev i s ion b e g a n on Augus t 25, 1967, 100,O00 PAL-sets h a v e b e e n sold in the Federa l Republic, whi le a fu r the r .15,000 h a v e b e e n exported. The resu l t ing mass p roduc t ion as wel l as compet i t ion b e t w e e n manufac tu r e r s h a v e a l r eady led to ma jo r pr ice reduct ions .

More t han 10,000 exh ib i to r s Leipzig Spring from s ix ty-f ive coun t r i es

Fair 1968: have , accord ing to the Leip- zig Fair Bureau, a l r eady

10,000 Exhibitors booked space for the Leipzig

from East and West Spring Fair 1968 due to be held from March 3 to March

12. A m o n g them are abou t six t housand fore ign exh ib i to r s inc lud ing the Federa l Republic. The tech- n ica l exhibi ts , sp read ove r s ix ty-f ive b ranches of indus t ry , will be s h o w n on the a rea of t he Technical Fair. Ther, e a re s e v e n t e e n ha l l s in the Ci ty cen t re for the exhib i t s of the twen ty - f ive b ranches of the consumer goods industr ies . The en t i re a rea of the Fair ex t ends ove r 350,000 square-met res . The Fair p romote r s expec t more t han 600,000 v is i to rs f rom some e igh ty- f ive countr ies . M a i n l y the East bloc count r ies will be r ep re sen t ed on co l lec t ive s tands for b ranches of indus t ry more n u m e r o u s l y t h a n in pas t yea r s on the Technical Fair.

In 1967 the W e s t G e r m a n Federal Post Office Post Office was ab le to

Gives Technical Aid in tens i fy technical coopera- t ion wi th the pos ta l ad-

to Numerous minis t r a t ions of numerous

DevelopingCountries deve lop ing countr ies , bi- l a t e ra l ly as wel l as mult i -

la teral ly . As far as b i l a te ra l aid is concerned , the Federa l Post Office suppl ied in the yea r unde r r ev i ew to the pos ta l and t e l ecommunica t ion admin i s t r a t ions of deve lop ing count r ies 40 exper ts to work as advisers , p lanners , s u r v e y o r s and ins t ructors . It was poss ib le to s ta r t va r ious ex tens ive p r o j e c t s - - p a r t i c u l a r l y in the sphe re of t e lecommuni - cat ions. One scheme amongs t o thers tha t was s t a r t ed unde r the d i rec t ion of two exper t s f rom the G e r m a n Federa l Post Office was the cons t ruc t ion of the teaching block for the Te l ecommunica t ion School in C o n a k r y (Guinea}. Total expend i tu re for b i la te ra l measu res a m o u n t e d to DM 3.4 mill ion. For aid measu res in the mul t i l a t e ra l sec tor 28 exper t s were de lega ted and were used for the most par t as advisers , p l anne r s and ins t ruc tors wi th in the frame- work of the Uni ted Na t ions aid program. Special a t t en t ion was paid to the ins t ruc t ion and fu r ther t r a in ing of staff from deve lop ing countr ies .

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