Zakour meets Colombian ambassador on air transport

Min­is­ter of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion, Eli Za­k­our, met with His Ex­cel­len­cy William Sid­ney Bush Howard, Am­bas­sador of the Re­pub­lic of Colom­bia to the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go, as part of ef­forts to strength­en the civ­il avi­a­tion sec­tor.

The dis­cus­sions fo­cused on strength­en­ing air trans­port co­op­er­a­tion be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Colom­bia, ex­plor­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for es­tab­lish­ing air ser­vices, and ad­vanc­ing tech­ni­cal col­lab­o­ra­tion in avi­a­tion safe­ty and reg­u­la­to­ry sys­tems.

The meet­ing ad­dressed frame­works for air ser­vices be­tween the two coun­tries and mech­a­nisms for co­op­er­a­tion among avi­a­tion au­thor­i­ties. Talks in­clud­ed mat­ters re­lat­ed to safe­ty over­sight, reg­u­la­to­ry align­ment and in­for­ma­tion ex­change.

Min­is­ter Za­k­our said the avi­a­tion sec­tor re­mains a com­po­nent of eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty and trans­port con­nec­tiv­i­ty. He not­ed the role of air links in trade, tourism and busi­ness move­ment be­tween the Caribbean and South Amer­i­ca.

Am­bas­sador Howard ref­er­enced ex­ist­ing re­la­tions be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Colom­bia and the po­ten­tial for ex­pand­ed air con­nec­tiv­i­ty.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion stat­ed that en­gage­ment with in­ter­na­tion­al part­ners will con­tin­ue as part of its pro­gramme for sec­tor de­vel­op­ment.

The Min­istry said dis­cus­sions with re­gion­al and hemi­spher­ic coun­ter­parts form part of its agen­da for air trans­port and reg­u­la­to­ry co­op­er­a­tion.