Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) joins CANSO
22 October 2007
NEW CANSO APAC OFFICE PLANNED FOR 2008
download full press release
October 22, 2007 CANSO, the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) is delighted to announce the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has become a full member of the organisation.
The announcement was made today at the Asia/Pacific Director Generals’ Civil Aviation Meeting in Xi’an China by Mr Lim Kim Choon, Director-General & Chief Executive Officer, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and Mr Alexander ter Kuile, Secretary General of CANSO.
Singapore’s role as a global hub serving the Asia Pacific region is growing in importance each year. CAAS provides air traffic control services within the Singapore Flight Information Region (FIR), search and rescue support to aircraft in distress within the Singapore FIR and works to increase airspace capacity in cooperation with ICAO, IATA and other user groups at a time of rapid air traffic growth.
“The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore is delighted to be a member of CANSO,” said Lim Kim Choon, Director-General & Chief Executive Officer, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore. “We are excited to be part of this global network of air navigation services providers and look forward to contributing actively to the work of CANSO to promote safe and efficient ATM,”
“Air navigation services providers (ANSPs) around the world are moving towards more performance-based operating models,” said CANSO’s Alexander ter Kuile. “We are delighted that CAAS, recognised as one of the world leaders in providing safe, efficient and customer-focused services, has joined the CANSO community. One of the key missions of CANSO is to improve ANS performance globally and today, with the welcome addition of CAAS, we have moved a step closer to our goal.”
CAAS joins a continuous growing number of CANSO members – such as AEROTHAI, Airports Authority of India, Airservices Australia, Airways New Zealand and Kazaeronavigatsia (Kazakhstan) - in the Asia/Pacific (APAC) region. The need for ANSPs in APAC region to cooperate on operational issues to improve levels of safety and capacity at a time of unprecedented traffic growth has accelerated plans of CAAS and CANSO to jointly develop a dedicated regional office for CANSO in the APAC region to support all of these activities.
“Our ANSP members in the APAC region have reached agreement to proceed jointly with the establishment of a regional CANSO office for APAC based in Singapore, “said CANSO’s Alexander ter Kuile, “Individual APAC ANSPs have been at the forefront of developing new technologies, operating procedures and working practices to greatly enhance the safety and capacity of the air transport system in the region. But now we have to translate these gains across borders to support the entire Asia/Pacific region. CANSO has successfully established offices in Brussels and Montreal and with a new base in the APAC region we can increase our ability to support global ANS improvement initiatives.”
For more information, please contact
Alexander ter Kuile
Secretary General
CANSO
info@canso.org
+31 (0) 23 568 5380
back to list