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Air BP Begins Rolling out Fueling-safety Digital Platform in Middle East

Air BP is now acquiring the hardware and software needed to roll out its Airfield Automation platform at its Middle East and Northern Africa locations.

Air BP concedes the Middle East has challenges, but sees the region’s “trajectory” indicating major growth in aviation. The company is developing a cloud-based fueling-safety program.

By Chris Kjelgaard

November 17, 2019

Air BP is in the process of acquiring the hardware and software needed to begin rolling out its Airfield Automation fueling-safety digital platform at all of the airport locations in the Middle East and Northern Africa where it has direct operations.

Robert Gerritsen, Air BP’s general manager for the Middle East and Northern Africa, told AIN that the rollout of the company’s Airfield Automation platform throughout the region will begin at its airport locations in the United Arab Emirates. Air BP expects to complete installation of the cloud-based platform—designed to prevent misfueling of aircraft and to provide operators with real-time data on their fueling activities—at all its UAE airport sites in 2020.

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