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The Diplomat. 23/10/2016

The Spanish company Indra has been awarded, through its subsidiary in Australia, the contract for the installation and launch of the network ADS-B, which will cover the surveillance of the air traffic in the south of the Pacific Ocean.

The contract has been awarded through a public international tender by the Governments of Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu within the framework of the Aviation Investment Programme of the Pacific, according to information provided by the company. Indra will also be responsible for the training for the running of systems and their maintenance.

This surveillance network, which will be installed in eight different places located at the aforementioned countries, will offer an optimum ADS-B surveillance coverage for the air traffic of these islands and it will offer its services to long-distance flights connecting Australia and New Zealand with the American continent.

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It will monitor the flights connecting Australia and New Zealand with America

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Indra has turned into one of the main companies responsible for the modernization of the management infrastructure of air traffic in the region of Asia-Pacific, where it has already developed numerous important projects in countries such as China, Mongolia, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, New Zealand and Australia.

Indra is present all over the world, with more than 4,000 installations of air traffic management systems in more than 160 countries. In Australia, Indra, whose headquarters are in Sidney and Newcastle, offers its services to the sectors of Defence, Transport and traffic, Energy and Security. Among its clients appear Airservices Australia, as well as the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and, more recently, the company Sydney Trains.