Aviation ground handling company, NAHCO Aviance, has announced the deployment of new equipment in major airports across the country. The company, in a statement, said that the equipment which started arriving the country in August are being deployed to all airports where NAHCO operates.
The statement issued by Ahmed Bashir Gulma, the Head, Corporate Services, disclosed that the sum of N1.5 billion was invested in the new equipment.
“We are deploying these new equipment in the airports to satisfy our domestic and international clients. The equipment are the types you will find in the best of modern airports in the world,” the statement read.
The statement further disclosed that the first batch of the 131 units of Ground Support Equipment, (GSE) arrived the country last month and deployed even as the federal government was still putting finishing touches to the airports it was re-modelling across the country.
Among the GSE are aircraft passenger steps, self-propelled pallet transporter, belt loaders, wide aircraft cargo loaders, aircraft tow loaders and towable toilet service units.
Others include towable fuel bowsers, pallet dollies, container dollies, baggage trailers, belt loaders and ACUs.
Meanwhile, the Company’s IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations (ISAGO) certification has been renewed till 2016.
