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their core business to their human resources. For in-
stance, Portocargo is planning to buy more powerful
motorbikes in order for their employees to have bet-
ter mobility. The company also want its employees to
wear uniforms so they can be recognized as being
port employees.
Another aspect that is very important for Portocargo
is foreign investments. As the company has previ-
ous experience with Portocargo Portugal, they feel
that Angola has to take advantage of the knowledge
and know how foreign companies bring. In addition,
Portocargo is negotiating with a cosmetics company
from Brazil to start a partnership.
“We encourage investors to come to Angola, the
country is having the best political and military en-
vironment ever, and in the name of Portocargo, we
want to guarantee the best services, coming from
their control in quality, and trying to make the best
commercial relations for mutual growth.”
Claudio Silva
Managing Director
GHASSIT
Manuel Almeida
Managing Director
Hangar n˚4 Aeroporto Internacional 4 de Fevereiro
Luanda
Tel: +244 222 328 706 / 222 328 520
Fax: +244 222 328 554
malmeida@ghassist.com
www.ghassist.com
Activity: Ground handling services
Date of creation: 1996
No. Employees: 600
Ghassit started its activities in 1996 and since then
they have established a solid presence in the An-
golan market. The company has the latest qualifica-
tions and has a high potential to expand internation-
ally.
The company provides ground handling services at
the airport. They are responsible for check in, clean-
ing, documentation, push back of the aircrafts and
all other services related to the passengers at the
airport.
The amount of activities of Ghassit has increased
past years, as they were gaining more clients. More
airline companies started their activities in Angola
and in addition, TAP increased its weekly flights from
5 to 7 and TAAG started a new route to São Paulo.
In 2010, Ghassit attended 4 million passengers as
compared to 3,6 million in 2009. Ghassist currently
has 15 clients. The most important are TAAG, Air
France, British Airways, South African Airways, LAM,
Kenya Airways and Servisair.
Ghassit has 600 qualified employees. One of the
main objectives of the company in the past years
was to improve the equipments, which are very
specialized, and to provide adequate training to its
employees.
Ghassit does not have competition in the market and
it subcontracts other companies in the sector such
as Best Fly, Global Support and others to support the
core business of Ghassit.
TAAG (Linhas Aéreas de Angola)
Carlos Vicente
Communication manager
Rua da Missão 23 , 11th floor
Bairro Ingombota - Luanda
Tel: + 244 222 633 614 / 327 112
carlos.vicente2007@hotmail.com
www.taag.com
TAAG Airlines
Activity: National airline company
No. Employees: 4,000
Linhas Aéreas de Angola, UEE, was founded in 8th
September 1938 under the name of D.T.A. (Divisão
dos Transportes Aéreos). Inmediately after Angola
gained independence in November 1975, it changed
its name to TAAG and reorganisation and expansion
plans were implemented.