Africa-Press – Tanzania. IN a bid to increase a number of trained experts in aviation and transport logistics industry, the National Institute of Transport (NIT) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with NAS Dar Airco Tanzania to collaborate in trainings of aviation and transport logistics.
Speaking at the signing ceremony held in Dar es Salaam on Friday, NIT Rector, Prof Zacharia Mganilwa and NAS Dar Airco Tanzania’s General Manager, Miguel Serra said the deal will help them improve professionalism.
Serra said that NAS which started in Kuwait in 2003 and officially came to Tanzania in 2016 is aggressively expanding in emerging markets to develop into a comprehensive airport management company.
“Before coming to Tanzania in 2016, NAS has been a phenomenal growth company which started as a ground handling agency in Kuwait with one airline as customer, but quickly transformed into a leading aviation services provider with a presence in more than fifty (50) airports across the Middle East, South Asia and Africa currently,” Serra said.
He pointed out that NIT aviation and transport logistics students who will get practical training at NAS Dar Airco will have international exposure with the possibility of working anywhere in the World.
“Apart from getting chances for practical training, the students will also have an opportunity being employed with us and be sent to any of the twenty (20) countries and more than fifty (50) airports worldwide where we operate,” he said.
Serra added that the Kuwait Company has state-of-the-art engineering equipment to serve its customers with safety and dispatch reliability being of vital importance.
“The services we provide under our engineering umbrella include; technical ramp handling, operation control center, ground support equipment, maintenance workshop and supporting services,” the NAS Dar Airco Tanzania GM noted.
Speaking at the same ceremony, NAS Dar Airco’s board member, Prof Costa Mahalu said the collaboration with NIT will support training of aviation and transport logistics students who will serve the growing market demand.
“The programmes being offered here will make NIT one of the best transport institutes in Southern African Development Community (SADC) and in Africa as well,” he said adding that through the deal, NAS will provide practical training to aviation student’s theory at NIT hence graduating as competent professionals ready to serve the market.
On his part, NIT Rector said Prof Mganilwa said the MoU will provide opportunities to the institute’s aviation and transport logistic students to get practical training at NAS Dar Airco in line with professional needs of the industry.
“The partnership will also improve and strengthen the functioning of NIT’s School of Aviation and Technology to produce more and quality professionals who serves the market,” the NIT Rector noted,
He added the plans are under way to launch airport vehicle driving and operation courses. “We have prepared a curriculum that will be used to train airport vehicle drivers, soon we will commence the programme,” he added.
