(VNF) - With 734,000 safe flights in 2016, Vietnam was listed among four global winners of the IHS Jane’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) Award of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO).

The Service Provision Award aims to promote flight safety and efficiency. Vietnam is one of 161 members of CANSO.

The Hanoi Air Traffic Control Center, which has been operating for two years, was lauded for its high-quality system of air traffic management.

In August 2016, the Vietnam Air Traffic Management launched two one-way paths parallel with each other from north to south using advanced navigation to shorten travel time.

The north-south air route in Vietnam is one of the world’s busiest, with nearly 700 flights a day.

The Hanoi Air Traffic Control Center. (Source: Internet)

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region, which connects the West and Southwest Asia and the East and Northeast Asian Economic Zones, is also one of the busiest flight areas in the globe, with more than 2,000 flights a day.

Other shortlisted nominees for the award are AEROTHAI with Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) Platform; Austro Control/Slovenia Control with SAXFRA cross-border free route airspace and U.S. Federal Aviation Administration with Confidential information Share Program (CISP).

Winners and shortlisted nominees for the awards will be recognised at a ceremony on March 7^th, held during the World ATM Congress in Madrid.

Held annually since 2001, the awards celebrate improvements in ATC and airspace management during the past year across six categories including Enabling technology (contributions to enhanced capacity and safety); Environment (recognising work on 'green' ATM concepts); Innovation (reflecting a significant contribution by equipment SUPPLIERS

); Technology (for small enterprises that have raised ATM performance); Service Provision (for contribution to safe and efficient airspace management); Runway (for safety and efficiency on the runway and final approach).

Nominations are assessed by a panel of judges from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), Eurocontrol, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Association (IFATCA), IHS Jane's and SESAR JU./.

( Compiled by VNF )