Air Tanzania enlist Swissport to provide ground handling services
Dar es Salaam. National carrier Air Tanzania Company Ltd (ATCL) has signed a business partnership with Swissport International (T) Ltd to providing ground handling services.
Initially, ATCL had been working with NAS-Dar Airco as the ground handling service provider until on Wednesday, January 1, 2020 when the company handed over the task to Swissport at Kilimanjaro International Airport (Kia).
ATCL's northern regional manager Esther Mary Karumbo told reporters during a handover ceremony in Moshi that they have engaged Swissport to drive the work.
The take-over of ground handling services by Swissport was mainly due to an expiry of contract with Nas-Dar Airco, according to ATCL managing director, Mr Ladislaus Matindi.
“Our contract with Nas-Dar Airco ended on December 31, 2019. But prior to the expiry of the contract, we advertised a tender to ground handling companies to bid and Swissport emerged the winner,” he told The Citizen
He said Swissport Company, which has effectively started its operations with ATCL on 1st January 2020, competitively won the tender.
ATCL has been working with Nas-Dar Airco Company since 2016.
