NEWS
Co-financing agreements for electricity
interconnection project
T
he European Commission and the African Development Bank
have signed two co-financing agreements for the Cameroon-
Chad electricity interconnection project and the trans-Saharan fibre
optic (SDR) scheme.
Ousmane Doré, Director General of the Bank for Central Africa,
and Francesca Di Mauro, Head of the Central and Southern Africa
Unit, and Indian Ocean, Directorate General for International
Development Cooperation of the European Commission, co-signed
the agreements for an aggregate amount of nearly €60 million.
In December 2017, the African Development Bank had given
the go-ahead to finance 65% of the €399 million project. The
donation made by the European Commission represents 7.5% of
this amount.
The project, scheduled for completion in 2022, will improve the
economic and social development framework of the countries
concerned by increasing the rate of access to electricity and cross-
border exchanges of cheap and cleaner energy.
As for the SDR project, with a total cost of €79 million and financed for
more than half (€44 million) by the African Development Bank, it will
strengthen the access of populations, administrations and enterprises
of high-quality, reliable and accessible digital services in both countries,
thanks to the planned multiple cross-border optical links.
At the regional level, the two projects will increase energy and data
exchanges, in addition to greater integration of the member States
of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), thus
contributing to their socio-economic transformation.
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Mango Airlines to install Split Scimitar
Winglets on Boeing fleet
A
viation Partners Boeing (APB) has
announced that South Africa’s Mango
Airlines has ordered its latest Split Scimitar
Winglet technology for its Boeing Next
Generation 737-800 fleet.
South Africa´s Mango Airlines has ordered
its latest Split Scimitar Winglet technology
for its Boeing Next Generation 737-800 fleet
“Mango Airlines clearly recognises the
enhanced performance and improvement
to the operating economics of the Boeing
Next Generation 737-800 fleet from the
installation of Split Scimitar Winglets,” said
Christopher Stafford, Aviation Partners
Boeing Director of Sales and Marketing.
“With the installation of the Split Scimitar
Winglet System, not only will Mango
Airlines realise significant fuel savings
in its network, but it will also show its
environmental stewardship.”
The Split Scimitar Winglet modification
reduces Boeing Next-Generation 737 block
fuel consumption by an additional 2.2%
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over the Blended Winglets. The Split Scimitar
Winglet System will reduce Mango’s annual
fuel requirements by more than 155,000
litres per aircraft and their carbon dioxide
emissions by over 390 tonnes per aircraft
per year.
“As a low-cost airline, Mango is continuously
looking at ways to maximise the operating
profitability of our fleet in order to remain
competitive in an increasingly challenging
environment,” said Marelize Labuschagne,
Acting Chief Executive Officer, Mango Airlines.
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