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MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION
EGYPTIAN HOLDING COMPANY FOR AIRPORTS & AIR NAVIGATION

Egyptian Holding Company for Airport and Air Navigation (EHCAAN)
Cairo International Airport Road, PO Box Heliopolis, Cairo 11776 Cairo , EGYPT
22 April 2008

Egyptian Airports Sign up to Global Commitment On Climate Change

Today, Egyptian Airports joined the global aviation industry in a Declaration on climate change that was signed by industry leaders at the Aviation & Environment Summit in Geneva, Switzerland. More than 200 of the world’s airports have also signed up to the Declaration.

Although aviation only accounts for two percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, today’s declaration was designed to demonstrate and strengthen the industry’s commitment to introducing technological, operational and efficiency advances to reduce its impact.

Mr. Ibrahim Ahmed Manna'a says: “In signing up to the declaration, Egyptian Airports has reaffirmed its commitment to the environment. We will work with all players across the industry to target carbon-neutral growth as a step towards a carbon-free future for aviation.”

Robert J Aaronson, Director General of the global trade association of airport executives, Airports Council International, says: “Airports around the world are already implementing energy efficient operations; this Declaration further demonstrates aviation’s coordinated efforts in tackling environmental challenges. All sectors of society, business, governments and individuals have a role to play in addressing climate change. This Declaration confirms aviation’s intention to grow and contribute to economies, in a sustainable way.”

Egyptian Holding Company for Airport and Air Navigation (EHCAAN) has been developing a comprehensive environmental policy. This policy is fully complying with ICAO and National Environmental regulation and Egyptian Civil Aviation Regulation. Environmental divisions have been created within CAC and EAC, with all the necessary equipments and tools to monitor environment: air &water quality, soil, noise, social & economic impact. These divisions will assess full compliance with National and International standards, ensure that all current or new projects include environmental requirements, and conduct training and seminars in relation with Environment.

Recently EHCAAN has been implementing comprehensive Environmental studies for Cairo, Sharm El Sheikh, Borg El Arab, and Hurghada airports.

This business concept is based on the cooperation between AVIT and CAC for the implementation of a wireless network at Cairo International Airport with emphasis on Internet Connectivity and Voice & Data Services.

The project is mainly designed to serve Cairo Airport Passengers and Airport Tenants as well as Cairo Airport Employees. However, it is planned to be extended to cover the external airports (Sharm El Sheikh & Hurghada) at a latter stage where the proposed solution shall enable the introduction of new various services and applications within the three airports. This will include travelers' services such as Kiosks and internet remote access, in addition to new value added services that would be created for service providers at the airport such as handling agents, airlines, tourism companies and duty free.

The  project is a  Turn-key Project for the first phase Infrastructure Cabling System for about 3600 passive nodes distributed among: Main Building, Extension Building  and Medical Center Building.

Main Building:
Over 15 levels, each floor divided into four areas two towers “Tower-A & Tower-B” and two sides in the main Front, Building body “FB-Left side & FB-Right side”.

Extension Building:
The CAO Extension Building existing over 9 levels.

Medical Centre Building:
Three levels, ground plus two floors.

Tender Value is 2.3 Million LE and Implementation Period is 8-12 weeks.

Project includes:

• Complete Infrastructure Cabling System Horizontal & Vertical Distribution will be installed into and across these Buildings.

• A Pilot WAN access for just one Remote Location with the HQ for testing the provided application across the WAN.

• Building a Complete New Scalable LAN infrastructure supporting advanced capabilities for running all their expected mission critical application smoothly.

• Building new Secured High-Availability Network serving the CAO users between both the HQ in Egypt and its distributed branches all over the entire Country to facilitate information exchange safely using its latest collaboration software tools.

• Building Multi-Layer Security Systems over multiple platforms to secure the CAO investment presented in its’ installed applications as well as users data processing from both internal and external hacking.

With the objective of having an Integrated Network Based Security Solution for the Egyptian Airports to meet the International /National Standards for Aviation Security and Facilitations, AVIT has chosen SITA as the best vendor to provide the requested solution. 

Security solution components includes:

• CCTV
• Screening Systems
• X-Ray machines & Metal detectors (WT/HH) MD
• Access Control Systems ACS
• LAN & WAN
• Systems Integration
• Monitoring and Control Centers
• Maintenance /Technical Support
• Training
• Documentation  & Certification.

The Egyptian Holding Company for Airports & Air Navigation (EHCAAN) with its 4 subsidiary companies (Cairo Airport Company, Egyptian Airports Company, National Air Navigation Services Company & Aviation Information Technology) appeared with a New Corporate Identity and remarkable image at AVEX 2006 Air Show & Aviation Expo at Sharm El Sheikh International Airport.

Inside the Indoor Static Display Area, and next to Egypt Air Holding Company was located the Booth of EHCAAN with a unique design that has been chosen and agreed on by the four subsidiary companies where AVIT managed the contracting & execution of the project on behalf of its sister companies.

AVIT Marketing & Communications Manager May Helmy was responsible for reviewing layouts and following-up with selected advertising agency until final delivery and installation at Sharm El Sheikh.

At AVIT partition, there was a review for AVIT Summit 2006 held at Hurghada where it has been the first gathering for AVIT IT professionals including esteemed customers from the Aviation sector as well as Business Partners. AVIT Customers have gathered to watch the Summit review and were willing to have it on again the following year.

AVIT has also displayed a live demo for the DMS Project by Eng. Hosni Shafik aiming to serve customers outside the aviation domain as well. This is in addition to presenting other AVIT Projects including the Integrated Network Based Security Project and the ERP Project as well as the 23/7 Customer support Service presented by AVIT Help Desk.

Aiming to further develop and improve our Technical Support Service provided by AVIT for SITA Projects at the Egyptian Airports (Cute, BRS, FIDS and LDCS), we would like to kindly inform you that we have successfully established new upgrading for this service which would contribute to facilitating the call handling procedures while offering 24/7 Customer Support.

In that occasion, AVIT would like to announce for the Soft Opening of AVIT Help Desk for the above mentioned projects at Cairo International Airport Terminals 1 &2 as well as CCC starting May 1st, 2005

AVIT Help Desk Advantages include:

• AVIT dedicated call center will eliminate any chance of having an abandoned call for customers of the airport since there would always be an agent on demand receiving inquiries, requests and troubleshoots, classifying them and escalating problems to the responsible engineers to take necessary action.
• AVIT Help Desk new facility would enable the tracing of customers’ problems including problem repetition, time taken to solve the problem as well as the solution derived so that all customers could effectively manage and monitor the performance of their assets.
• Having a record for each customer would enable the Help Desk Team to provide a better service through being pro-active about the problems that might face their customers and have a fast response towards any trouble shooting afterwards.