《Airfinance Journal》的“2008年非洲最佳交易奖”由Precision航空公司的ATR舰队获得, 欧洲宇航防务集团
Release Date: 2009-04-21
New York, 21 April 2009
The financing of the fleet of 2 ATR 42-500s and 5 ATR 72-500s of the Tanzanian private carrier Precision Air Services has been awarded by Airfinance Journal as “African Deal of the Year 2008”. The award for this US$ 129 million structured finance lease has been granted to the carrier at the 10th Annual Deals of the Year Awards Dinner ceremony, held in New York. The financing of the ATR fleet of Precision Air Service was already awarded last December, by Jane’s Transport Finance magazine, as the “2008 Aircraft Leasing Deal of the Year in Africa”.
“We are honored by this recognition, which consolidates the financing of our ATR fleet as one of the most performing and successful operations in the field of aviation finance in 2008”, declared Alfonse Kioko, Managing Director and CEO of Precision Air Services. “We would like to thank all our partners, ATR, Citi and Finnfund, which have played such a key role in order to make this financing possible. Thanks to their efforts, their knowledge and their success, we are now able to further expand the regional air connectivity in Tanzania, thus contributing to develop both tourism and business.”
Commenting on this prestigious award, Giovanni Tramparulo, ATR Senior Vice-President Finance, stated: “We are delighted of seeing how the financing arrangement of the ATRs of Precision Air Services has been awarded twice in such few time. We are also very proud of the confidence that the banks have shown in ATR.” He added: “We’d like to give a special recognition to all the teams which have worked very hard in order to optimally arrange the financing for the introduction of the first ATR ‘500 series’ aircraft in Tanzania.”
| Type: | NORMAL |
| Company: | 欧洲宇航防务集团 |
| Country: | 德国 |
| Url: | http://www.eads.com/1024/en/pressdb/pressdb/20090421_atr_african_deal.html |