AIRTRANSPORTANNUALREPORT2012 - Archive

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
The country has also made noceable progress
in their compliance with ICAO safety and secu-­‐
rity standards through an update of their regu-­‐
latory framework, and training of their tech-­‐
nical staff. The APL1’s closing date has just
been extended from end December 2011 to
end June, 2013, to allow the full compleon of
on-going and a few scheduled acvies, to en-­‐
sure that the project’s implementaon is fully
sasfactory.
Nigeria, as the only country in the region, has
received a US Federal Aviaon Administraon
(FAA) Internaonal Aviaon Safety Assess-­ments
(IASA) Category 1 rang in August 2010.
This means that the Nigerian Civil Aviaon Au-­thority,
is capable of enforcing internaonal air
safety standards set by ICAO for aircras oper-­aon
and maintenance, and that the country
has the laws and regulaons necessary to
oversee air carriers in accordance with mini-­mum
internaonal standards. As a result, Ni-­geria’s
registered carriers, such as Arik Air, can
now offer direct flights to the USA for the first
me in nearly 30 years.
Despite improvements in safety and security
oversight of the aviaon sector however, cri-­‐
cal reforms are sll needed regarding the over-­all
instuonal arrangements and governance
in the sector. An in-depth study on instuon-­al
reform is in its last version providing some
insight into the development of a beer over-­all
strategy and financial management. A
roadmap and a discussion of the study’s rec-­ommendaons
will be presented at a work-­shop
organized by the Ministry of Aviaon
next year. The recerficaon process of Nigeri-­an
air carriers has been sasfactorily estab-­lished,
and contributed to air transport safety
improvement by strengthening NCAA’s tech-­nical
staff capacity. Some airlines sll remain
to be re-cerfied in line with the new revised
guidelines, include Dana Air that has been in-­volved
in a fatal accident last year in Lagos.
Despite slower comparave progress, Benin
has also shown some significant achievements
in the last year. Compliance with ICAO safety
standards has increased from 19.2% 2007 to
42.9% in 2012. Senegal’s audit is sll outstand-­ing
but the internal audit carried out by the
CAA concluded that compliance with ICAO's
standards is 85% and 89% for safety and secu-­rity
respecvely.
Contact Person is Noroarisoa Rabefaniraka at
nrabefaniraka@worldbank.org
Tanzania Transport Sector Support Project (P055120, P126206)
In May 2010, the Bank approved a credit of
US$270 million for the Transport Sector Sup-­port
Project (TSSP) in Tanzania. In support of
the Transport Sector Investment Program
(TSIP), the project’s goal is the rehabilitaon
and preparaon of designs for part of the
paved naonal road network, and the rehabili-­taon
and/or upgrading of regional airports.
The three works contracts, namely; (i) the
paving and rehabilitaon of the runway at Kig-­oma
airport (ii) the rehabilitaon of the main
runway at Tabora airport, as well as (iii) the
extension, rehabilitaon and paving of the run-­way
and the replacement of the apron, termi-­nal
and car parking at Bukoba airport, were
signed in FY12.
The project received addional funding (AF) of
US$59 million on 30 of June 2011. This prompt-­ed
the revision of the project development ob-­jecves
and the expansion of the scope of the
aviaon component. As menoned above the
AF will finance the works and the associated
supervision services to rehabilitate, expand
and/or extend the exisng taxiways and apron
of Zanzibar Airport. The Revoluonary Govern-­ment
of Zanzibar (GoZ) has also secured a loan
from the China Exim Bank to finance a new ter-­minal
building.
Contact person is Negede Lewi at
nlewi@worldbank.org
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