“Anticipated growth of the aviation industry in the country needs reliable export and import aviation service providers,” said Swissport Chief Executive Officer, Gaudence Temu during a media visit of the company’s newly-established facilities at the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere International Airport recently.
Temu said aviation is one of the most sensitive and lucrative industries whose survival and growth depends on consistent and reliable support services including ground handling of both cargo and passengers.
“It’s impossible for the aviation industry of any country to grow if there are no quality aviation support-services,” Temu argued saying Swissport Tanzania is committed to growth and offering quality services.
He said the importance of support services like those being offered by Swissport are necessary hence the need to seriously invest to improve ground handling facilities.
Among the specific features of the warehouse include an enlarged cold room facility for fresh cargo with scanning and screening directly done into the cold room.
The cold rooms have been partitioned into two 200 square metre area and 100 square metre portions to provide different environment and for a clear separation of commodities.
The Swissport boss further noted that the warehouse also has an installed 20-foot scale in the area with options to print weight dockets as per airline requirements.
“The newly-installed export facilities have the capacity to store perishable goods such as flowers, vegetables, meat and fish products from different parts of the country areas,” he noted.
On the import side, Swissport, the world’s leading provider of ground and air cargo services to the aviation industry, has put up a state of the art air-cargo import warehouse, with a fully secured environment, access control through turnstiles and biometric locks and a 24 hours seven days a week CCTV surveillance system with 100 percent vehicle check.
Other amenities for the warehouse include special cargo facility and rooms, dedicated express handling/courier facility, mini-shipment tower, dedicated bulk/out-of-gauge storage and a release facility, fully covered shipment release and loading bays equipped with dock levellers /loading bridges (8 bays for large trucks and 4 for medium to small trucks).
Swissport Contract and Marketing Manager, James Mhagama the latest investment has been introduced to support government-led initiatives at improving the country’s export-import trade, on one hand, and boost up the performance of the aviation industry that is an important component in boosting economic growth.
“Here at Swissport, we want to provide nothing but the best in terms of our ground handling services,” Mhagama said.
Among major airlines serviced by Swissport are: Air Tanzania Company Limited, Egypt Air, Emirates, Ethiopian Airlines, Fly Dubai, Kenya Airways, and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
Others are, LAM-Linhas Aereas de Mocambique, Malawian Airlines, Oman Air, Qatar Airways, Rwandair Express, South African Airways (SAA), Swiss International Air Lines, and Turkish Airlines.
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