| GE Celma and Blue Airlines Team up |
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| Wednesday, 10 February 2010 06:00 | |||||
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{mosimage}Acting Governor Luiz Fernando Bigfoot, accompanied by Secretary for Economic Development, Energy, Industry and Services, Julio Bueno, was in Petrópolis, in the mountainous region, this morning (1), to attend the conclusion of the contract between GE Celma and Azul Brazilian Airlines. The contract, worth $ 1 billion, will last for 15 years for maintenance, repair and overhaul CF34 of 36 aircraft of Blue and four leased by the company, to be held at the premises of Celma. The acting governor praised the partnership the two companies and noted that the initiative will mean more jobs and more taxes to Petropolis and the state. - With a growing economy and our state, businesses are investing and we need to improve our labor force and occupy those jobs that are being and will be created. Only the state of Rio, will be invested over $ 100 billion over the next three years. Congratulations to GE Celma and Blue by this partnership and that we continue to make this state and the city of Petropolis grow - Bigfoot addressed. Secretary Julio Bueno said Celma's largest exporter of services in Brazil, with about $ 1 billion per year and 80% of revenues by providing services to foreign airlines. - There are more foreign exchange for the city and the state. The Blue is a new company to enter the market, which will be important to competitiveness in the country - completed Bueno. GE Celma has contracts with national companies such as Tam and Gol, and particularly with international institutions such as Avianca, Continental Airlines, South West, KLM, Lan Chile and FedEx, among others. The company, which has a thousand direct employees, 600 employees and service providers, residents in several areas, review 300 jet engines per year, with annual sales of about $ 2 billion. - The Celma, for years, no longer the only domestic operations to become a truly global competitor. Certainly, the company is one of the largest and most internationally competitive industry - praised the company's president, Marcelo Soares. For the Blue, the agreement with Celma and repairs the aircraft on Brazilian soil and makes room for a national company providing maintenance to dozens of other airlines that operate turbines similar to those of blue jets. - The agreement is good for the Blue and even better for Brazil. In relation to what interests us, we, with this contract, a service center of excellence in the country, which is of paramount importance to ensure the least downtime and more efficient support for our operation - said the founder of the airline David Neeleman, whose objective, he assured us, is to help the aviation market in the country to grow at least twice more. Tags:
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