ABU Dhabi: GANS signs three new agreements on the last day of GISS

“The Rwanda agreement is around aviation collaboration focused on training, they’re looking to build capacity with their own training facility, said David Adebiyi, chief commercial officer.

Adebiyi said GANS was in conversation with AFCAC, which Rwanda was involved in.

“Rwanda doesn’t just want this to be an agreement between GANS and Rwanda, they want to make sure that AFCAC is involved in the conversation too.  Rwanda doesn’t want to just serve their own training needs, but also serve the needs of other African countries too,” he said.

GANS also signed an MoU with Kenya, also building on capacity.

“We already have a contract with Kenya, delivering English language training in Nairobi, that was on the back of GISS in Istanbul, so it’s basically continuing that collaboration with them,” said Adebiyi.

“Kenya is a Centre of Excellence - they support a number of a number of African countries, but they don’t have enough capacity – so when they struggle with capacity, they tend to work with us.”

The third contract was between GANS and Guyana to deliver a training conversion for their air traffic controllers.

“They have moved into what is known as Approach Surveillance, which is a type of air traffic service.  We have just developed the training courses at our training centre,” explained Adebiyi.