Addis Ababa — Ethiopian Airways and Boeing have signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on positioning Ethiopia as an aviation hub for Africa.
Constructing on the 2 events’ seventy years of shared historical past in aviation, the MoU goals at positioning Ethiopia as Africa’s aviation hub – “Ethiopia for Africa”, in accordance a press launch issued by the Ethiopian Airways.
Boeing has acknowledged Ethiopian as a worldwide aviation chief within the continent the press launch stated, including the MoU is indicative of Boeing and Ethiopian Airways curiosity to ascertain a mutually useful world class aviation partnership.
To understand their shared imaginative and prescient, Ethiopian and Boeing have agreed to work in partnership in 4 areas of strategic collaboration specifically: Industrial Growth, Superior Aviation Coaching, Instructional Partnership, and Management Growth in a span of three years.
To this impact, joint multidisciplinary groups have been established to implement the strategic partnership and vital milestones have already been registered.
CEO of Ethiopian Airways Tewolde GebreMariam stated, “I’m very a lot thrilled not solely to signal this historic MoU with our long-standing aviation associate, Boeing but in addition to the implementation of milestones. We have now been working in collaboration with Boeing on totally different large-scale tasks in aviation for greater than 70 years to serve the continent of Africa and this partnership expands and builds {our capability} in a number of fields.”
The MoU will efficiently attain its objective of positioning Ethiopia because the continent’s aviation hub he stated, including “We extremely worth the important function of our American associate corporations in conducting our objectives and we’ll proceed to work with key American aviation gamers like Boeing, GE, Pratt and Whitney and Collins Aerospace and many others… in our journey in the direction of excellence in aviation.”
Ethiopian and Boeing need Ethiopian Aviation Academy to be acknowledged as a worldwide customary for aviation coaching.
Boeing is dedicated to creating Ethiopia’s manufacturing functionality and aftermarket aviation service.
They are going to collaborate with extremely certified academic establishments and aviation business companions to create specialised studying and growth applications to satisfy workforce calls for.
Boeing and Ethiopian can even work collectively to develop present and future generations of leaders in Ethiopia for Africa.