Air cargo bus lands in Port-Harcourt, the first of its kind in Africa

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Monday, March 19th, 2012

AN Air Cargo bus, Antonov 225, for the first time, landed safely in Africa, at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, at the weekend.

The air cargo bus, which was piloted by Captain Antonov Dmytro, took off from Calgary, Canada.

It was loaded with equipment for oil and gas business, which were brought in by Makon Engineering and Technical Services (METS), a wholly Nigerian company.

METS Group General Manager Oluseyi Makinde said his company decided to use the air cargo bus to lift the equipment to enable them beat the deadline given by President Goodluck Jonathan for electricity improvment in Nigeria.

Makinde said some of the equipment include compression packages, instrumentation packages and fuel-gas system to be used at Bonny Flow Station to extinguish the gas flare as well as provide gas for the power project which his company is handling.

He said the coming of the plane is good publicity for the country as “all the issues about Nigeria not being a safe destination have been cleared.

“This is improving our image and it is also proving that by this we are moving forward and we are ready to do business with the world.”

The METS Manger said his company is part of the Nigerian Content Policy and would convince the government that it had not made a mistake by assenting to the local content law.

-The Nationwp_posts