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Zambia Air Traffic Radar to be commissioned in August

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The Zambia Air Traffic Management Radar (ZATM-Radar) project which is currently being implemented by the Government through the Ministry of Transport, Works, Supply and Communications and the Zambia Airports Corporation Limited is scheduled for commissioning this August.

Zambia Airports Corporation public relations officer Monde Wood said in statement in Lusaka today that the project will benefit both the local and international aviation community flying into and through the Lusaka Information Region (IFR) through the provision of radar controlled air traffic environment.

The project involves the installation of the radar and Communication facilities at the Kenneth Kaunda and Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula International Airports, the establishment of an Aeronautical Telecommunication Fibre Network (ATN) to interconnect the international and provincial airports, the development of air traffic control procedures including the training of technical and air traffic management personnel which will ensure continued service provision after the equipment is commissioned.

The project commenced on 30 March 2014 and is scheduled to be completed and commissioned by August 2015.

The ZATM-RADAR equipment and systems have been procured at a tender sum of thirteen million, five hundred and thirteen thousand, five hundred and thirty six Euro (Euro 13,513,536.00).

The antenna installation at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport has already been completed. Installation of the same unit at the Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula International is underway while civil works on the radar head are also nearing completion. Completion for the civil works and site acceptance are due in the month of March 2015.

The Corporation has since trained sixteen maintenance engineers and eighteen air traffic controllers drawn from the Zambia Airports Corporation Limited and Civil Aviation Authority.

The ZATM – Radar project continues to make steady progress and is now halfway to completion. Thales ATM who is the supplier of the equipment currently has teams of engineers at the Kenneth Kaunda and Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula International airports installing the equipment.

7 COMMENTS

  1. Another success for President Lungu.
    KEEP THEM SOMING SIR.
    This guy is definitely an “A” grade president!

    • What about ZAF bases we need radar TOO . There are old and some are not even working BA lungu . What about your illegal arms deal with katumbi , RB and Henry Banda can’t as a radar .

  2. to think that planes had to use there own internal radar system to land most international airports have had this for decades now i hope they can stop the infighting and start the construction of the new terminal building…… were being left in the dust by new airports in africa terminals being built in Mozambique,Angola, somali ,Algeria, Kenya ,Tanzania, ethopia and senegal to mention a few that relic from the 80s KKIA needs to be upgrade today!

  3. Yangu tata…..so we have had no radar for air traffic controllers, thats if they exist in Zambia, all this time? Pilots are literally on their own flying in.

  4. Thales Group why do we use them to update our outdated Zambia Railways signalling and other upgrades…these guys are major players in the transportation sector!

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