Africa-Press – Namibia. The international airport services company Menzies Aviation’s contract to provide ground handling services to the Namibia Airports Company (NAC) at Hosea Kutako International Airport will end on Thursday, a High Court judge declared today.
Menzies Aviation has had the contract since 2014.
Ground handling services at the airport are to be taken over by Paragon Investment Holdings, to which the airports company awarded the contract in December last year, after a tender process which Menzies Aviation claims was irregular and unlawful.
Judge Orben Sibeya also ordered that Menzies Aviation should vacate the premises it is occupying at the airport by the end of tomorrow, and that the court’s deputy sheriff may evict the company if it refuses to comply with his order.
Sibeya gave the order in a case in which the airports company asked the court to declare that its contract with Menzies Aviation will be terminated at the end of June.
In response to the NAC’s court application, Menzies Aviation asked the judge to set aside the tender awarded to Paragon, in a joint venture with Ethiopian Airlines. Sibeya dismissed Menzies’ application, and ordered it to pay its opponents’ legal costs in the matter.
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