President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday directed the Department of Transportation to speed up its discussions with Sumitomo-Thales for the maintenance of the country’s aviation traffic management system following the New Year’s Day airspace shutdown.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday directed the Department of Transportation to speed up its discussions with Sumitomo-Thales for the maintenance of the country’s aviation traffic management system following the New Year’s Day airspace shutdown.
“We also made some recommendations on how we will move forward. The President is very much aware of what happened. He supports our recommendation to implement future requirements necessary for the upgrade or improvement of the CNS/ATM system, which includes hardware and software maintenance, hardware replacement, ultimate fallback system for system redundancy and the need for independent CNS/ATM in a separate location,” he added.
With this, Bautista said the President ordered the DOTr to continue the maintenance of the CNS/ATM equipment and fast track the service contract agreement between the agency and Sumitomo Corp. - Thales Corp. The Transportation chief said the President recommended that the DOTr have separate discussions on entering into a new agreement with Sumitomo-Thales and the settlement of claims.
Transportation Undersecretary for Aviations and Airports Roberto Lim earlier said the Thales-Sumitomo joint venture's claims involve a total amount of P986,653,157.81 which was divided into three different types of claims:
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