Day: February 6, 2023

The 31st edition of MRO Africa 2023 and the 10th African Aviation Training Conference and Exhibition kicked off here on Monday with the participation of representatives of a galaxy of airlines and aviation experts.

EgyptAir Maintenance and Engineering hosts the MRO Africa 2023 & the 10th African Aviation Training Conference & Exhibition.

Minister of Aviation Abbas Helmi, Head of the Civil Aviation Authority Amr El Sharqawi, Yehia Zakaria, Board Chairman of EgyptAir Holding Company, representatives of civil aviation sector from various countries as well as regional and international organizations are attending the conference.

MRO Africa 2023 is attended by around 600 senior airline, aviation and regulatory officials from all over Africa, as well as by senior representatives of MRO Organizations, supply companies, aircraft manufacturers and international companies involved in aircraft and engine leasing, aviation finance, aviation insurance and airline support services.

The event was born in Cairo in 1992. The exceptionally grown MRO Africa 2023 includes an exhibition co-located with the Conference for leading international and African MRO suppliers to market their products and services.

The conference sessions offer multi-topic discussion panels with the participation of the most prominent aviation experts in the region, aiming to exchange experiences and present innovative solutions to problems facing the aviation sector in general and aircraft maintenance and training in particular.

Source: State Information Service Egypt

Minister of Military Production Mohamed Salah El-Din conferred on Monday with Romanian Minister of Economy Florin Spataru on means of bolstering joint cooperation.

During the meeting, Salah El-Din asserted that the two countries are seeking to beef up cooperation ties in the coming phase through opening up new horizons for cooperation and integration.

He said the Romanian delegation’s visit to Egypt under the chairmanship of Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca and his meeting with President Abdel Fattah El Sisi aimed at holding expanded talks on strengthening economic ties, noting that this visit acquires special importance as it the first official visit by a Romanian premier to Egypt in 20 years.

Salah El-Din said talks will cover exchanging expertise in the various industrial domains, adding that the Ministry of Military Production is looking forward to enhance cooperation and achieve integration between the military production companies and their Romanian opposites in view of their advanced potentials and technological capabilities.

He also invited the Romanian companies to form technical teams to visit the Egyptian military production companies and their affiliates to be briefed on their potentials on the ground.

Salah El-Din also invited the Romanian companies to take part in Egypt Defense Expo (EDEX 2023) that will be held on December 4-7 in Cairo.

The Romanian minister, for his part, voiced his country’s resolve to make progress in relations with the Egyptian side especially in the fields of manufacturing with a special focus on cooperation with the military production companies, noting that Egypt enjoys a distinguished geographical location that turns it to be a gate for the Arab and African markets.

Source: State Information Service Egypt

Health and Population Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar announced the launch of a campaign to spread awareness about the early detection of cardiac diseases.

The campaign falls under the umbrella of “100 Million Healthy Lives” presidential initiative.

The campaign was launched in the presence of Presidential Advisor for Health Affairs Dr Mohamed Awad Tag el Din and Representative of WHO in Egypt Dr Naima el Quseir.

A host of senior officials attended also the launching ceremony.

Source: State Information Service Egypt

Organized by the Foreign Ministry in cooperation with the OIF, a high-level economic forum opened here earlier Monday.

Short for the International Organization of La Francophonie, the OIF has dispatched an economic mission on a two-day visit to get firsthand information about opportunities to enhance joint cooperation with Egypt.

Addressing the inaugural session of the forum, Deputy Foreign Minister for African Affairs Hamdi Loza said Egypt is seeking to support all OIF activities through boosting cooperation and trade exchange, as well as establishing new partnerships.

Cairo backs political and economic relations with all OIF members, Loza noted.

He said Egypt is acting to seize all available economic opportunities, adding that “we are really very happy to organize this edition of the forum and inaugurate the OIF regional office inside Cairo University.”

Loza cited opportunities offered by the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) to investors, also reminding of a reform program implemented by the Egyptian government and positive indicators in this regard.

Loza said the program of the forum is concerned with achieving sustainable development until 2030 in line with an African Union (AU) agenda.

It focuses on the files of food security and renewable energy, the Egyptian diplomat said.

In his speech at the forum, Henri Monceau, Director of the Economic and Digital Francophonie of the OIF, said the Organization is acting to help all investors wishing to support businesses in Egypt.

The Economic Francophonie includes chambers of industry and trade, as well as start-up companies and entrepreneurs (women and youth) in member states, Monceau told the gathering.

He touched upon digitization and regional integration plans, stressing OIF support for establishing a free trade exchange zone.

The Egyptian government does have its own economic priorities, such as supporting the private sector and achieving food security, Monceau acknowledged. The OIF economic mission, currently visiting here, will work to promote investments in these fields, he noted.

Participants in the forum have already held a main session on investment opportunities in Egypt.

Source: State Information Service Egypt

Transport Minister Kamel El Wazir made on Monday an inspection tour of the first phase of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) project.

The tour began with an inspection of the work sites at the Mohamed Naguib station that serves the areas of Katameya, New Cairo, and the new urban areas located south of Ain Sokhna Road.

The first phase of the LRT project will connect the New Administrative Capital with the Adly Mansour interchange station in Cairo.

The station is set to include an LRT system, a railway station, a SuperJet bus station and a shuttle bus station.

The second phase extends over 18.5 km and comprises four stations starting from the NAC to a central interchange station linked with the high-speed train line in Ain Sokhna city on the Red Sea coast.

Source: State Information Service Egypt

Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker asserted the ministry’s utmost keenness on boosting ways of cooperation with different institutions and agencies in the coming period and scaling up the participation of the private sector in new and renewable energy projects.

Shaker’s remarks came during talks with Managing Director of Siemens Energy Layla el Hares Monday.

Shaker paid tribute to cooperation with Siemens Energy and the experiences the world company enjoys in electricity and energy.

The Egyptian official said the ministry is very interested in protecting the environment through raising efficiency of production units and expanding renewable energy projects.

Egypt aims to reach 42 percent of the contribution of renewable energy in the nation’s energy mix by 2035, according to him.

For her part, Hares commended greater experiences of the electricity and renewable energy sector in Egypt.

She underlined desire to increase the volume of cooperation with the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy to promote the contribution of renewable energies and offer all German experiences in digital transformation, modern control centers and smart grids.

Source: State Information Service Egypt

The state has been working on increasing the production of oil crops and supporting the edible oil industry as part of a government plan to support locally-made foodstuffs for citizens, said Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli Monday.

During a meeting to discuss expansion in edible oil production in the presence of Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Sayed Al Quseir and Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Ali El Meselhi, Madbouli said 100,000 feddans would be grown this year with soy beans to increase areas cultivated with this important crop to 500,000 feddans.

He also said that 90,000 feddans would be added to areas grown with sunflower to increase its farmlands to 250,000 feddans.

For his part, the minister of supply stressed the importance of encouraging farmers to grow strategic crops.

The minister of agriculture said his ministry is now focusing on the cultivation of cotton, soya beans and sunflower to increase edible oil production.

Source: State Information Service Egypt