This morning at 8:20 am Air Seychelles welcomed its first flight from Almaty, Kazakhstan. This is the first flight linking the Seychelles to the central Asian country.

CEO Patrick Vel, Chief Executive Officer of the Seychelles Public Transport Corporation (SPTC) will be retiring from public service at the end of this December after a long, successful career in leadership positions spanning various public enterprises.

The Minister for Transport, Mr. Antony Derjacques is in Abuja, Nigeria, attending the annual global Air Services Negotiation event, ICAN-2022, that is being held between the 5^th to 9^th December 2022.

This year’s International Civil Aviation Day is being celebrated under the theme “Advancing innovation for Global Aviation Development”. The day which is commemorated on the 7^th December annually, was established in 1994 to help generate and reinforce worldwide awareness of the importance of international civil aviation to the socio-economic development of States.

Building the local capacity to enable the creation of a greener aviation and less CO2 emission in airport activities is the purpose of the visit of the ICAO Technical Project Consultant, Mr. Didier Moukalan. Mr. Moukalan met with the Ministry of transport and the Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) to discuss the potential support that the International organization can offer the country.

The La Digue Port Extension Project is moving at a steady pace with 64% of the total work now completed.

The Ministry of Transport, the Seychelles Ports Authority (SPA) and the Technical Steering Committee for the La Digue Port extension are pleased with the progress being made on the La Digue Port Extension Project.