GAMECO Phase III Hangar Groundbreaking Event

 

                               
On May 23rd 2019, GAMECO hosted the groundbreaking event for the Phase III Hangar and construction will last till December 2021.

 

Phase III Hangar, located on the north to Phase I Hangar with total investment of 886 million CNY, covers a huge area of 98,500 square meters and can accommodate 6 wide-body aircraft (including A380 and B777-300ER) and 5 narrow-body aircraft for heavy maintenance at the same time, while the additional aprons take up an area of 59,000 square meters.

 

After completion of Phase III Hangar, GAMECO’s slots will increase from the currently 20 heavy maintenance lines to up to 30 production lines. It will greatly relieve our shortage of capacity, offer more flexible production plans for CSN and support the execution of PTF Project. When Phase III Hangar is put into use, the development of line maintenance, component repair, composite repair, LDG overhaul, aircraft parts manufacturing, etc. will be accelerated to enable GAMECO to better support the rapid growth of CSN’s fleet and to carry out more domestic and overseas 3rd party business.

 

Phase III Hangar will create more job opportunities and contribute additional taxes to Guangzhou Airport Economic Zone. It may also generate an aggregation effect to cluster aircraft maintenance and related industries in the region and to drive Guangzhou Airport Economic Zone to achieve the goal of building a global aircraft maintenance industry center.

At the groundbreaking event, Mr. Norbert Marx, GAMECO CEO, introduced that GAMECO has successively established branches for line maintenance in Chonqing, Australia and New Zealand as well as for landing gear overhaul in Qingyuan, set up C Check production lines in Shenzhen and Shantou and built up Parts Manufacturing Center (PMC) to improve GAMECO’s maintenance layout. “The completion of Phase III Hangar will further strengthen GAMECO’s market position and competitive advantage in aircraft maintenance industry”, stated by Mr. Marx. 

 

GAMECO now has Phase I Hangar and Phase II Hangar, which were put into use in August 2004 and November 2013 respectively. The construction of Phase III Hangar will be another milestone in the development of GAMECO and CSN M&E System.

 

Founded in 1989 and headquartered at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, GAMECO is now jointly managed by China Southern Airlines Co., Ltd. and Hong Kong Hutchison Whampoa (China) Co., Ltd.