Zambia Airports Corporation Limited renews trust in Thales with a 3-year agreement for safer skies – Africa.com
- Zambia Airports Limited (ZACL) has been successfully operating Thales solutions at Lusaka and Livingston airports for 9 years.
- ZACL and Thales have signed a 3-year agreement to maintain Thales-supplied ATC solutions and radar systems to support the modernization of Zambia’s skies.
- The project is part of ZACL and Thales’ joint commitment to making Zambia’s skies safer.
Lusaka, Zambia, January 10, 2025 – /African Media Agency (AMA)/ – Thales leverages its expertise and extensive experience to provide best-in-class maintenance services, including frequent diagnostics of its STAR 2000 and RSM 970S radar solutions and TopSky-ATC systems, ensuring that all solutions supplied to ZACL remain up to date and high performance.
The maintenance contract provides comprehensive support from Thales, including preventive and corrective maintenance. It includes electronic repair services for STAR 2000 and RSM 970S radars as well as software corrections for TopSky-ATC systems, ensuring a comprehensive view of the maintenance budget at a fixed price.
Thales will provide annual health checks, vibration analysis and quarterly site visits for the STAR 2000 and RSM 970S radars to anticipate problems and ensure optimal performance. The TopSky-ATC system will benefit from four annual preventive maintenance inspections as well as three annual visits from technical and operational support teams for more in-depth inspections. Both solutions will be supported with unlimited hardware repairs.
A dedicated support team located close to the site will guarantee a fast, streamlined repair process with guaranteed turnaround times, and ZACL will have access to the ongoing process at all times via the Thales customer online portal, ensuring high transparency.
“With this contract, we are not only strengthening our trusted collaboration with ZACL, but we are also joining forces to create the airspace of tomorrow, making it safer for everyone.” Said Cyril Einaudi, Director of Thales ATM Turnkey Department.
“This agreement and collaboration requires ZACL to continue to provide reliable, safe and efficient air traffic management (ATM) systems that meet the values of our stakeholders while strengthening our business continuity strategy to provide continued air navigation services, as well as strengthening aviation Safety and Airspace Capacity”. Announce Ngoza Matakala, Managing Director, ZACL.
Distributor African Media Agency (AMA) On behalf of Thales.
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Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a global leader in advanced technologies focused on three business areas: Defense & Security, Aerospace and Networks & Digital.
It develops products and solutions that help make the world a safer, greener and more inclusive place.
The Group invests nearly 4 billion euros in research and development every year, especially in key innovation areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum technology, cloud technology and 6G.
Thales has nearly 81,000 employees in 68 countries. In 2023, the group’s sales reached 18.4 billion euros.
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