NEWS
Plan to launch Kuwait as regional
data centre revealed
S alem Al-Uzania, Board Chairman of Kuwait’s Public Authority for
Communication and Information Technology, has spoken in favour
of transforming Kuwait into a data centre region. sign a deal with the Iraqi Ministry of Communications to establish
the Regional Communication Passageway that will connect Iraq with
Kuwait and the two countries with Europe.
Al-Uzania, in a statement to the Kuwait News Agency, has confirmed
that the authority as part of its strategy for the future is seeking to
make Kuwait a regional data centre in line with the country’s Vision
2035 blueprint. The project will facilitate data flow from the East to the West, he added.
He also revealed that the authority is also planning to establish a
national data and information centre.
He made the comments on the sidelines of the Huawei Connect
2019 Tech4All Summit which had a theme of ‘How Inclusive
Innovation Can Empower the World’. The Kuwaiti Authority will soon
During the Huawei event Al-Uzania discussed the regional corridor
for communications to be in tandem with China’s Silk Road
enterprise. The minister also said that Chinese officials had praised
Kuwait’s launch of 5G digital services.
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Kuwait Airways leverages Honeywell
Advanced Software to cut fuel costs
K
uwait Airways is reducing fuel use
through its utilisation of Honeywell Forge
Flight Efficiency software. The technology is
also being deployed at Nippon Cargo Airlines
and may reduce fuel costs by up to 3%,
saving each airline potentially millions of
dollars per year.
“Airlines today are trying to meet very tight
margins while also improving operational
efficiency, and Honeywell Forge Flight
Efficiency helps on both fronts,” said John
Peterson, Vice President and General
Manager, Software and Services at
Honeywell Connected Enterprise, Aerospace.
“We give operators information they can use
to develop, implement, sustain and measure
fuel-efficiency initiatives.”
Fuel use can account for 20% to 40% of an
airline’s operating costs, so even single-digit
percentage improvements can potentially
save airlines tens of millions of dollars each
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year. Honeywell Forge Flight Efficiency allows
airlines to take advantage of new ways
to save fuel by impacting the three major
influencers of fuel consumption: aircraft
weight, engine utilisation and fuel planning.
The software collects, cleans and analyses
streams of disparate data from a wide
variety of sources, and offers actionable
insights and alerts that can help improve an
airline’s efficiency across its fleet.
Kuwait Airways has implemented the
software across its fleet of 25 Boeing and
Airbus aircraft. n
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