AVIATION

SAHCO acquires state-of-the-art handling equipment, expands warehouse, wins award

&NewLine;<p>Skyway&NewLine;Aviation Handling Company PLC &lpar;SAHCO&rpar; has acquired a fleet of brand new Ground&NewLine;Handling Equipment&comma; expanded its cargo warehouse to boost its operations to&NewLine;accommodate its growing activities and also been presented an award as the Most&NewLine;Impactful&nbsp&semi; Ground Handling Company of the&NewLine;Year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>SAHCO’s&NewLine;new fleet of equipment includes Baggage Carts&comma; Conveyor Belts&comma; Passenger Steps&NewLine;and Static Pallets which are of high quality with exceptional features&period; The&NewLine;Passenger Steps which are manufactured in Italy by Bombelliare equipped with&NewLine;peculiar safety features that prevent unwarranted interference&comma; some of which&NewLine;include censors that automatically slows it down to snail speed to avoid any&NewLine;form of collision with aircraft&period; The Ground Support Equipment which can both be&NewLine;remotely and manually operated thereby making usage very flexible&comma; can be used&NewLine;for both wide and narrow body aircrafts seamlessly&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Just&NewLine;like the Passenger steps&comma; the Conveyor belts are the latest model in the&NewLine;aviation market&comma; they are equipped with Aircraft Proximity Censor which gives a&NewLine;signal when approaching the aircraft to avoid collision and they can go as high&NewLine;as 6ft unlike the old model which could only do about 3 feet&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Also&comma;&NewLine;the static pallet dollies are made of synthetic aluminum which prevents rusts&comma;&NewLine;very rugged and easy to lift from all angles without folding or damaging the&NewLine;flat bed&period; Just like the pallets&comma; the newly acquired baggage carts model has&NewLine;special features which includes&semi; higher ground clearance that enhances&NewLine;accessibility&comma; a canopy&comma; and is kitted with synthetic aluminum that prevents&NewLine;rust&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;SAHCO’s constant investments in ultra-modern&NewLine;equipment are one of the reasons the organization stands out among its&NewLine;competitors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Recently&comma;&NewLine;SAHCO invested in brand new baggage tow tractors to boost its operations across&NewLine;the country&comma; this immense investment in modern technology and state-of-the-art&NewLine;equipment which has resulted in excellent performance has boosted clients’&NewLine;confidence and even brought about interest in intending clients&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Furthermore&comma;&NewLine;SAHCO has expanded its export warehouse to accommodate the growing export&NewLine;business which is fitted with brand new modern cargo scanners to makeexport&NewLine;cargo processing safe&comma; effective and speedy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma;SAHCO&NewLine;PLC has bagged &OpenCurlyQuote;The Most Impactful Aviation Ground Handling Company of the&NewLine;year’award&comma;by the Association of Foreign Airlines and Representatives in&NewLine;Nigeria &lpar;AFARN&rpar;&period; The award which was presented to SAHCO during its&NewLine;2019Summit&sol;Awards at the Sheraton Hotel &amp&semi;Towers&comma; Ikeja&comma; Lagos with the&NewLine;Theme&colon; &OpenCurlyQuote;Unlocking Potentials in the Aviation Industry through safety’&comma; had in&NewLine;attendance key industry stakeholders and industry regulatory agencies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>According&NewLine;to the organizers&comma; SAHCO PLC won the award because &OpenCurlyQuote;SAHCO’s services has&NewLine;continued to make great strides in the industry’ due to SAHCO’s unmatched track&NewLine;records in providing quality&comma; safe and speedy Ground Handling services in the&NewLine;Aviation industry over the years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As&NewLine;part of the Panelist at the summit&comma; Mr Basil Agboarumi&comma; Managing Director&sol;CEO&comma;&NewLine;SAHCO PLC&comma; stated that the importance of safety in the aviation sector cannot&NewLine;be overemphasized&period; He reiterated the need for alignment of purpose and vision&NewLine;in order to ensure safety is sustained while also stressing that&nbsp&semi; Ground Handlers&comma; Airline companies and all&NewLine;the stakeholders must work together so as to unlock potentials in the Aviation&NewLine;Industry&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In the&NewLine;same vein&comma; the Central Bank of Nigeria &lpar;CBN&rpar; has expressed appreciation to&NewLine;SAHCO for the company’s unwavering support and commitment towards the success&NewLine;of the 2019 general elections&comma; urging SAHCO to sustain the commitment for&NewLine;quality service delivery at all times&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The&NewLine;CBN stated that&comma; they were pleased to express their appreciation for SAHCO’s&NewLine;active role and participation in the national assignment&comma; stressing that SAHCO’s&NewLine;unflinching support and commitment towards the success of the Independent&NewLine;National Electoral Commission &lpar;INEC&rpar; operations has been recognized and placed&NewLine;on record by the management of the bank&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>SAHCO&NewLine;provide services in Ramp&comma; Passenger and Cargo Handling&period; It&nbsp&semi; is involved in all the activities that takes&NewLine;place from the time an aircraft touches down on the tarmac to the time it is&NewLine;airborne&comma; while also ensuring that Aviation Ground Handling services is carried&NewLine;out in an efficient&comma; speedy and safe manner by deploying the right tools&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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