By Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo
Dana Air has bagged the Nigerian AviaCargo Airline of the Year Award at the CHINET Aviation and Cargo conference held at Lagos Marriott Hotel Lagos.
This is just as the Skyway Aviation Handling Company (SAHCO) PLC has won the Aviacargo Export Handler of the year in Nigeria.
Both awards came at this year’s CHINET AviaCargo Conference, the biggest gathering of Professionals in the Aviation and Cargo environment bringing together all players in the value chain.
According to the organiser of the AviaCargo conference Mr Ikechi Uko, the award for Dana Air is in recognition of the airline’s contribution to the growth of the aviation and cargo industry in Nigeria.
Reacting to the award, the Chief Operating Officer of Dana Air, Ememobong Ettete said, Dana Air having spent 15 years in the industry will remain a key player and contributor to the Aviation, Cargo sector in Nigeria and by extension the Nigerian economy.
”We appreciate the organisers for recognising our contribution towards easing the logistics in Cargo distribution, and helping to achieve Nigeria’s objective of being a Cargo hub, He added.
Similarly, the airline has also introduced ‘ Treasure Hunt’ Flash Sale which encourages its customers to visit its website at www.flydanaair.com between the hours of 12pm and 12.09pm daily to get highly discounted fares within its route network.
In a related development, SAHCO too wad presented the award for Aviacargo Export Handler of the year in Nigeria at the Conference which held at the Lagos Marriott Hotel, Ikeja.
Also speaking during the award presentation, the Uko praised SAHCO for their immense contribution to the growth of the Aviation and Cargo industry especially in the Agro-export sector.
The annual two-day event which was the 3rd edition of the Chinet Aviacargo conference was well attended by delegates from both the international and local aviation community and was geared towards discussing the challenges of the Nigerian agro-cargo industry and the solutions.
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In addition, at the event the Managing Director/ CEO of SAHCO, Mr. Basil Agboarumi was presented with the Aviacargo Champion award for 2023, due to his continuous support to ensuring that the Aviation Cargo industry thrives despite all odds.
Agboarumi who was represented by the Head, Corporate Communications, Mrs Adetola Vanessa Uansohia, expressed his gratitude and said he is humbled and genuinely surprised at the award.
He said that the aviation industry can only thrive through the joint effort of all stakeholders and if everyone contributes their quota the sky would be the starting point for the aviation industry especially the agro-export industry in Nigeria.
He said that as a company, SAHCO was always poised to ensure a safe, efficient and speedy service by continually expanding and improving the facilities of its import and export warehouses and by procuring environmentally friendly ground support equipment.
SAHCO owns Cool dollies to convey temperature-sensitive cargo from the aircraft to the data- logged cold rooms and freezers, thereby ensuring that there is no denaturing of the shipment.
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