Himalaya Airlines, Huawei Cloud join hands for a strategic partnership

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Kathmandu: Himalaya Airlines and Huawei Cloud, Chinese multinational technology company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for strategic cooperation.
Mr. Zhou Enyong , President of Himalaya Airlines and Deng Shuigen, CEO of Huawei Technologies Nepal Co., Pvt. Ltd. signed the MoU amidst a ceremony held here on Sunday.
Huawei, a leading global provider of information and communications technology, will provide Himalaya Airlines with competitive products and services to enable Himalaya to provide its passengers, better ticketing options and travel experience.
The agreement is expected to promote the construction of smart aviation and trans-Himalaya multi-dimensional connectivity to achieve more substantial results, opening up opportunities for Himalaya to be a leading airline in South Asia, according to a statement issued by the Airlines.
On the occasion, Mr.Zhang Fan, Economic & Commercial Counselor of Embassy of China to Nepal, expressed that the collaboration between the two parties is indeed a proactive effort to cope with the new challenges and circumstances of post-pandemic international aviation, international communication and Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation.
He hoped the two companies as well as the other companies with Chinese investment in Nepal can break the barriers of conventional mindset, adopt more innovative methods to create suitable business models for the post-pandemic period and thereby make meaningful contributions to the BRI cooperation between China and Nepal.
Similarly, Wang Ping , Deputy Director of the Department of Commerce of the Tibet Autonomous Region, affirmed Himalaya’s contribution to the establishment of an important aviation channel to South Asia for the Tibet Autonomous Region.
“Himalaya will achieve smarter management, operation and win-win development with the help of Huawei’s advanced information solutions. Tibet Autonomous Region will continue to support the development of overseas investment enterprises,” he said.
Addressing the event, Zhou Enyong, President , Himalaya Airlines stated that the cooperation with Huawei will speed up the digital transformation of the company, optimize the ticketing and travelling experience for customers, and contribute to the overall development of the entire civil aviation industry of Nepal.
‘ Himalaya and Huawei will cooperate in ICT technologies represented by Huawei Cloud and AI (Artificial Intelligence), in order to achieve mutual benefits and common development including building the Cloud platform for Himalaya’s sales and finance system, set up BI (Business Intelligent) system, and push ahead the upgrade and renovation of existing ICT equipment ,’ said Zhou Danjin, President of Huawei technology Cloud & AI business group of Asia Pacific Region .
June 29 , 2020