Air Navigation completes a project to link Iraqi airports with their counterparts in neighboring countries

Baghdad-INA 

The General Company for Air Navigation Services announced today, Friday, the completion and activation of the modern AMHS system for exchanging telegrams between Iraqi airports and airports of neighboring countries after great efforts.

The company's general manager, Nizar Ibrahim Al-Ziyadi, said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that "in line with the aspirations of the Minister of Transport, Captain Nasser Hussein Al-Shibli, to develop the infrastructure of the aviation communications system, the staff of the Aviation Communications Department, AFTN Division, completed the activation of the modern AMHS system for the air telegram processing system after The efforts of eight consecutive years by the committee supervising the project,” noting that “the completion of the project began in 2014 and in several stages, and today the fruit of the efforts is reaping its completion in cooperation with the Canadian IDS company.”
Al-Ziyadi praised the efforts of the members of the Supervision and Follow-up Committee, including engineers in the Communications Department.  

In turn, the Director of the Aviation Communications Department explained that "the system is considered one of the important, necessary and vital projects to link all Iraqi airports with international airports to exchange telegrams with a modern system within the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)," noting that "the trial operation was conducted for the past three days and the cadres of the AFTN Division began yesterday At ten in the morning, the official activation of the system, and the international aviation organizations were notified of Iraq's adoption of the AMHS system for exchanging telegrams. 
For his part, the Director of the AFTN Division confirmed that "Iraq today entered the international encyclopedia in the adoption of the AMHS project, which is one of the aviation communications systems that work on sending telegrams," noting that "the system deals with all types of civil and military aircraft and sends air telegrams between Iraq's airports and international airports without Any identification that includes information about the weather, the state of civil and military aviation, air telegrams, and sending many photos in addition to information about flights in the event of delays, advances of their times, or airports stopping for emergency reasons.