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After several months of collaboration with all of its operational partners, on November 25, Nice Côte d’Azur airport commissioned its Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) system in connection with the Network Manager - Eurocontrol. Now equipped with this system, France's second airport is seeking to improve the safety, environmental impact and punctuality of air traffic. After an implementation and testing period, Nice Côte d’Azur Airport operationally commissioned its Collaborative Decision Making system on a permanent basis on Monday, November 25 at 14:36, with...
Glidepath Limited announced today that its shareholders have entered into an agreement to sell the shares in the leading integrated airport baggage and parcel handling systems, to B2A Technology SAS, the French leader in automated turnkey solutions for the intralogistics, airport and healthcare markets. Owner and Executive Chairman, Sir Ken Stevens, said in confirming the sale of the company he founded 47 years ago for an undisclosed sum that it was the right time for him and Stevens’ family interests as shareholders, and Glidepath as a business, to look to the future...... See the...
Groupe ADP and the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia have signed yesterday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to start exclusive negociation fot a strategic alliance for operation and developement, over 30-year period, of the Viru Viru Santa Cruz de la Sierre International Airport, the country's largest airport with 2.9 million passengers welcomed in 2018. See the full press release
The S$30 million lab will play a key role in developing advanced ATM capabilities The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and Thales have announced the establishment of a S$30 million Joint Aviation Innovation Research (AIR) Lab in Singapore to drive innovation in new air traffic management (ATM) technologies. The agreement to establish the AIR Lab was signed between Mr Kevin Shum, Director-General, CAAS, and Mr Jean Ferré, Vice-President Air Traffic Management, Thales on the sidelines of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Innovation Fair in Montreal....
Drone management platform SOARIZON by Thales has  announced that it has integrated with the location phenomenon what3words, this potentially life-saving technology. What is what3words? what3words is a really simple way to talk about location. The system has divided up the world in three-metre squares and assigned a unique three-word moniker to each square, making exact location targeting a much easier proposition than dealing with latitude and longitude coordinates. The system has been embraced by the emergency services, who routinely use it to pinpoint the exact location of...
airfileld lighting
Aug-2019 Three Runway System Project –Airfield Ground Lighting System (Contract 3305) Notice is hereby given that the Airport Authority of HKIA Tower, 1 Sky Plaza Road, Hong Kong International Airport, Lantau, Hong Kong awarded Contract 3305 for Airfield Ground Lighting System at the Hong Kong International Airport to ADB Safegate Hong Kong Limited of 1902-5, 19/F, Sunlight Tower, 248 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong on 1 August 2019. The awarded sum was HK$835,760,167. This procurement was conducted by way of an open tendering procedure. An invitation to tender...
Isac system
Alpha Cim will participate at inter airport Europe 2019 and will be rewarded on this occasion. This award will be given thanks to its  "ISAC" system. Congratulations to Alpha Cim! LE SYSTÈME "ISAC" The latest «ISAC» system controls taxiway and runway lighting by fiber optics. The intelligence of the system is distributed throughout the field to guarantee response times of less than the second. The system is adaptable to existing or new platforms and is compatible with all standard protocols, and extends to new...
The African Utility week is a unique opportunity to meet South African power, water and energy industry major companies. For several years, the South African government has been transforming the country’s energy supply, specifically to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels as 93% of their power production comes from coal. Codra presented its solutons on this occasion in Cape Town - South Africa (14-16 may 2019)  
Avinor Air Navigation Services, the biggest Air Navigation Service Provider in Norway, has reappointed Egis aviation, led by Helios, under a five-year framework contract for provision of consultancy and engineering services. Helios will draw upon their safety, human performance and security expertise to help Avinor Air Navigation Services to deliver its capital investment programme of major operational and technical changes to the tower, approach and en-route services such as the introduction of the new iTEC ATM system and the deployment of their NINOX Remote Towers platform. Anders...
The World ATM Congress is taking place this week in Madrid. This Congress is the biggest air navigation event that brings together executives and technicians from the sector. 8 of our members are attending and PROAVIA wishes all the best. ADB Safegate Altys Technologies DSNA Services Egis Avia Engie Inéo Innov'ATM Télérad Thalès