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  • A Chinese company has shown interest in the privatisation of Cabo Verde’s flagship airline

    CAPE VERDE, 2014/02/13 A Chinese company has shown interest in the privatisation of Cabo Verde’s flagship airline Transportes Aéreos de Cabo Verde (TACV), the archipelago’s minister for finance and Planning, Cristina Duarte said, cited by the Cape Verdean press. The minister, who did not name the Chinese company, said that the interest shown was due to TACV, inclunding power and water company Electra – Empresa de Electricidade e Água, starting to post positive results next a long restructuring process.

  • Transportes Aéreos de Cabo Verde (TACV) is on the list of companies due to be privatised

    CAPE VERDE, 2014/02/13 The handling company that is being set up by Cabo Verde airline Transportes Aéreos de Cabo Verde (TACV), to be transferred to airport manager Aeroportos e Segurança Aérea (ASA), is due to start operating in the initial quarter of this year, weekly Cape Verdean newspaper A Semana said. The new company, whose only shareholder will be ASA, will start operating with start-up capital of around 200 million escudos and 310 employees that will be transferred from TACV. The company is a spin-off of TACV following a restructuring process that has separated the flagship airline’s business areas, and the company will be based in the country’s airports.

  • South Africa’s Comair stops flying to Maputo, Mozambique

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2014/02/13 Comair, the South African airline that operated under a British Airways concession, has put an end to its flights between Johannesburg and Maputo, the company said in a statement issued Monday. The flights between OR Tambo International Airport and Maputo were launched in May 2013 but Iain Meaker, the airline’s commercial director, said that a decision had been made to end the route in order to ensure the company’s solvency.

  • First ever made Tunisian airplane may be used for tourism

    TUNISIA, 2014/02/11 The plane is made from carbon fiber and aluminium, and it will cost around 86,000 dinars (52,000 US dollars. A Tunisian-made airplane, widely reported as the initial-ever, is on display at the Engineering School of Sousse, Tunisia, a coastal city southeast of Tunis. The plane was manufactured locally by Oxygène Aéronautique, a newly-established company. Engineer Ferid Kamal and his two brothers began the project. Engineers from schools in Sousse, Monastir, and Sfax have worked on the plane.

  • Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s major carrier

    NIGERIA, 2014/02/01 Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s major carrier, has announced a steady increase in the number of passengers it carried between 2012 and 2013, according to new figures released here Thursday by the airline. The figures showed that the airline moved 2,745,400 passengers in 2013, representing 18.6 % increase over the 2012 passenger figure of 2,315,247. Arik's spokesman, Mr. Adebanji Ola, told aviation correspondents that 'The month of March 2013 was significant in that the airline recorded the highest passenger figure for the year with a total of 260,132 passengers carried across its wide network of 30 destinations.

  • Niger to build dry port in Dosso

    NIGER, 2014/01/10 Niger is considering the construction of a dry port in Dosso, 140 km east of Niamey, to facilitate the handling of goods, says an official statement made public on Tuesday. According to the government, the construction of the inland port is within the framework of the implementation of the facilitation of transport and transit of goods on the one hand and its regional development policy on the other. The port is expected to reduce costs, deadlines for transit and transport, minimise risks for Niger’s economic operators, improve and speed up procedures, tighten security and increase customs and tax receipts, according to the statement.

  • Mozambican national rail and port company Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM)

    MAPUTO CITY, 2014/01/04 Mozambican national rail and port company Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM) has announced conclusion of the work to renew the critical sections of the Sena railroad, which links the coal region of Tete to the port of Beira, Mozambican daily newspaper Notícias reported. The company thus ruled out the possibility of traffic along the Sena line coming to a standstill due to the rainy season, which Mozambique experiences at this time of year and would affect coal transport out of the Tete area. At the beginning of 2013, flooding of the Zambezi River in central Mozambique, led to some sections of the railroad being destroyed and for three weeks coal was not carried on the line, which led to significant losses for multinational mining companies Vale and Rio Tinto, which mine coal in the region.

  • Gabon’s aviation sector earmarked for growth

    GABON, 2014/01/04 Air travel in Africa can be a complicated affair, but with the continent’s current spurt in economic increase has come a push to improve aviation links – and Gabon is no exception. The country has seen international carriers strengthening their presence and passenger numbers on the rise, and two new airline ventures are beginning to take shape, although it may be some time before flights commence. Flights in Africa follow a hub-and-spoke system centred around Cairo, Johannesburg and Nairobi, but like a lot of Central African economies, Gabon is keen to establish itself as an aviation hub and play a key part in regional integration efforts. While the country is benefiting from improved indicators, to achieve that goal will required additional improvements in the in general operating environment.

  • Algeria’s airline industry,

    ALGIERS, 2014/01/04 A combination of new routes and bigger fleets is paving the way for a significant increase in capacity for Algeria’s airline industry, itself part of a broader government push to boost revenues from the tourism industry and drive up visitor numbers. However, exogenous challenges, inclunding a additional competitive environment and staffing disputes, risk limiting the benefits of the expansion campaign. The government has thrown its weight behind Algeria’s airline industry, with Transport Minister Amar Ghoul telling the local media in September that a new strategy for the sector would take account of the central role air travel has in driving tourism increase. Figures released by the Establishment of Management of Airport Services showed air passenger numbers increased by 7% between 2011 and 2012, up from 1.29m to 1.38m. The number of Algerians who travelled by air rose from 1.03m to 1.1m over the same period, while international passengers were up from 263,300 to 275,400.

  • The Congolese government and the China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCCI)

    CONGO BRAZZAVILLE, 2013/12/23 The Congolese government and the China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCCI) have signed an agreement in Brazzaville, the Congolese capital, for the rehabilitation of the Congo-Océan Railway (CFCO), according to an official statement. The agreement was signed by the Congolese Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Rodolphe Adada, and the Director General of CRCCI for African French-speaking nations, Chang Xuehui, Thursday. CRCCI will conduct technical and financial feasibility studies and again seek funding to rehabilitate the Pointe-Noire-Brazzaville and Mbinda-Mont-Belo rail links.
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