Macau International Airport

Macau establishes extensive network with Portuguese speaking countries through various channels over these years due to language, cultural and historical reasons. On 28th November - 4th December 2011, CAM worked with Supporting Office to the Secretariat of China and Portuguese Speaking Countries Economic Cooperation Forum (Macau) again to organize the "Senior Management Internship Programme for Airports of Portuguese Speaking Countries" in Macau. The main objective of this program is to let Macau play to role of platform between China and Portuguese speaking countries to strengthen the civil aviation exchange and cooperation between Mainland China and the Portuguese speaking countries, provide an opportunity for the participants to share expertise and experiences, and to become more familiar with the respective airport systems and to build professional and personal networks. A total of 12 officials and experts from the Republic of Angola, the Republic of Cape Verde, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau these four Portuguese speaking countries which allowed them to debate several relevant subjects, including civil aviation organs and regulations, airport operation, marketing, safety, security and maintenance, as well as related legal issues and application of information technology and virtual networks to improve and innovate airport services. In the end CAM organized a visit to Macau International Airport (MIA), Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) Central and Southern Regional Administration and the Air Traffic Management Bureau. The top leaders of these institutions warmly received the Macau and Portuguese Speaking Countries delegation, mentioning their good cooperation with CAM and Macau and giving the participants an opportunity to exchange ideas with the expertise in Guangzhou. Every participant gave positive feedbacks about the programme. Mr. Nuno Évora Santos, the Director of S. Pedro International Airport, Cape Verde, made a speech on behalf of all students at the closing ceremony stating that the objectives of the programme were fully met after 5 days of intensive programme, "with the Macau experience we could know the state-of-the-art on airport management in the countries involved, as well as learning and adopting new and modern practices of operation and management, to increase the quality and efficiency of the services we provide to airlines, passengers and users."