SAHCOL makes history, unveils first dollies in Nigeria

Skyway Aviation Handling Company (SAHCO) Plc recently commissioned Cool Dollies which was the first of its kind in West Africa amongst other multi-million naira Ground Support Equipment (GSE) to further augment its services to its clients.

The Ground Support equipment unveiled by SAHCO at the international wing of the Lagos airport, include Cool dollies, Pallet dollies, Pushbacks, Air Conditioning Units (ACUs), water and toilet bowers.

The three Cool Dollies which can be described as Mobile Cold rooms were manufactured by Bombelli a renowned G.S.E. manufacturer from Italy, has the capacity of taking a pallet or two AKE container load of temperature-sensitive shipment from the aircraft to the cold rooms or freezers in the warehouse.

Furthermore, the Cool Dollies, according to the handling company, are equipped with an automatic electric-powered engine that is environmentally friendly and is fitted with data loggers to catalogue the pressure and temperature level of the compartment to protect its contents.

Also commissioned were two 45 tonnes Push Backs which were manufactured by Goldhofer, a German G.S.E manufacturer, that has the capacity of pushing back all wide-body aircraft except an A380 aircraft, user friendly, and equipped with a tier four engine.

Speaking at the unveiling, the Managing Director/CEO, SAHCO, Mr Basil Agboarumi said that the new equipment would be added to the agency’s arrays of facilities at the airport, explaining that SAHCO believed in the continuous enhancement of facilities and would continue to invest in modern equipment in a bid to satisfy its clients, especially the airlines who he described as a very important segment of its business.

Agboarumi lauded the Board of Directors of SAHCO for giving its approval for the purchase of the equipment but appealed to the Federal Government to also grant the ground handling companies customs duty waivers on the acquisition of equipment.

His words: “SAHCO is doing this because we believe in adding values to the environment we operate in. Despite the current economic challenge in Nigeria, we are doing this at this time. These cool dollies are the first of their type in Nigeria. It can be used for the movement of perishable cargo from cold rooms to airlines and vice versa.

“We also have the Pushbacks, which are the real money-spinners, the ACUs, water and toilet browsers, which were fabricated by our engineers here in Nigeria. These we do to help reduce the search for foreign exchange, which is always hard to come by. The world is going green and SAHCO as a company is also in compliance with carbon emission.

“These equipment were manufactured in Europe and it’s easier to deliver these to those in Europe without the additional cost of shipping and clearing, but for us, we pay more for the same equipment as we need to pay for shipping and clearing of the equipment at our seaports.”

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