FAAN, SACHO, others to participate in Nigeria’s first Avicargo Conference
By Tobi Adetunji
Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Sky Way Handling Company and relevant stakeholders in the Aviation, Cargo, and Export industry will be participating in Nigeria’s first Avicargo conference next month.
The organizer of the event, Mr. Ikechi The conference, said a date has been slated for 25th and 26th of August 2021.
Ikechi said that the conference is long overdue.
Revealing more detailing about the grandiose conference, the convener, who is also the Publisher, Atqnews noted that, “Nigeria a country with over 200 million resourceful people depends a lot on imports this has been eroding the national wealth.
“A lot of airlines bring freighters daily to Nigeria and most of them fly out empty. There is therefore a need to change this dysfunctional scenario. Nigeria needs to export more and aviation should be the key to increasing exports.”
To this end, Atqnews seeks to convene an annual conference that brings all potential exporters, cargo managers, logistics firms, airlines, airports, Customs and everyone in the aviation and cargo ecosystem to chart a pathway that enables Nigerians to export more. As the importance of oil wanes, the value and volume of non-oil export should be growing and Aviation should be driving it.
The conference which will have an exhibition part will be broken into three parts over two days, aviation, cargo and exports.
The aviation aspect will have a presentation and panel discussion on airlines, airports and aviation experts including airline CEOs, past airport CEOs and aviators will discuss the reasons why our Airlines and Airport Systems have not delivered the best possible outcomes for aviation in Nigeria.
The second section on cargo will be presentations and panel discussions on the cargo and logistics value chain the Challenges of Scale and the Opportunities available.
“The third part will be on export. How do we scale our export capacity? How do we remove the impediments and improve our access and market penetration globally?
“There will be a Support Session on Insurance and Financing of Aviation, Cargo and Export in Nigeria.
“At the end of the two-day event we will be leaving the event with enough knowledge about the current aviation situation in Nigeria and its role in growing the economy by Driving Bigger Cargo Export from Nigeria. With this understanding of the Cargo and Export Systems we can integrate our systems by networking and learning from each other as problems shared eventually become problems solved,” according to Mr. Ikechi Uko, Publisher, Atqnews organisers of the event.
