SAHCOL to Provide Ground Handling Services To Ethiopian Airlines, Azman Air

The skyway Aviation Handling Company Limited (SAHCOL) has achieved yet another success, as it signed full handling contracts with Ethiopian Airlines and AZMAN Air, to offer ground handling services to them.

SAHCOL shall now perform full handling services (Ramp, Passenger and Cargo/Warehousing) to Ethiopian Airlines’ four(4) times a week passenger flights, and three (3) times weekly cargo flights, to/from the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano.

Meanwhile, SAHCOL has also been picked by AZMAN Air, the latest airline on the Nigerian domestic scene, to manage its ground handling operations. The contract includes all AZMAN Air passenger, baggage and ramp handling services.

SAHCOL, an ISAGO certified Ground Handling Company, and a 100% subsidiary of the Sifax Group continues to expand and gain credibility of airlines operating within/into Nigeria since the company became privatized in December, 2009.

SAHCOL has successfully established a strong market presence in the domestic and international airline industry, with unmatched expertise in Passenger, Ramp and Cargo/Warehousing services.

 According to Basil Agboarumi, general manager, Corporate Communications of the Company, with its now Private Sector Management Orientation, SAHCOL has kicked off the implementation of business models geared towards ensuring efficient and speedy delivery of Aviation Ground Handling Services to all its customers, as a result making it the reference point where efficiency of a successful flight is born.

The new face of SAHCOL is witnessing massive deployment of modern State-of-the-art Ground Support Equipment (GSE), Training/Retraining of all categories of staff, Infrastructural development and Management repositioning, re-fleeting of vehicles.

Other areas of development are boosting of clients’ confidence/ patronage, and massive Infrastructural Development, which includes an almost completed First-of-its-kind (West African Sub Region) Custom Bonded Cargo Warehouse, among others, all geared towards its goal of exceeding customers expectations.

SAHCOL, an Aviation Ground Handling Provider, offers services in Cargo Handling/Warehousing, Passenger Handling, Ramp Handling, Aviation Security, Baggage Reconciliation, Executive Lounge Services, and other related Ground Handling Services; while ensuring that Ground Handling assignment is carried out in an efficient, speedy and safe manner, by deploying the right tools.

Owing to the current boost in confidence, SAHCOL list of growing clientele.

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