Comoros Chronicles (14)

? (14) Comoros Airport and Marina

Comoros is an island country with a large international airport built with Chinese assistance in the capital Moroni. Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport (Hahaia State Airport) is an important window for Comoros to connect with the rest of the world and plays an important role in economic development. Experts from the Chinese aid team are doing technical guidance work at the airport. China has provided assistance in security check equipment, airport power supply equipment, guided the way of maintenance and management of airport equipment, and participated in guiding the upgrading and renovation program of airport equipment. Thanks to the joint efforts of Chinese experts and Comoros airport technicians, the Comoros airport has now met the requirements of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) for airports, with the establishment of a meteorological station and a medical room. Separate corridors have been introduced for domestic and international flights. The national airline operates inter-island passenger flights, while private airlines undertake air transportation. Zhao Gang, from our broadcasting team, took a small airplane from Hahaia Airport to Aung Juang Island several times to maintain the technical maintenance of the private television station on Aung Island all by himself. We went to the airport several times to pick up and drop off Chinese people, and saw the black people going out of the country, at the airport and family members reluctant to say goodbye, the walkers crying and weeping, the senders of the thousands of instructions, I used to be very unfamiliar with the black people, but when I saw this kind of scene, I found that they are not any different from us, have the same sorrows and joys, the same affectionate feelings, but only the color of the skin and the culture, the customs have differences. Even in the same country, between different provinces, there are imbalances in economic development, different dialects, different values, and different customs. There are some place names that people sometimes know only through disasters. There was an air disaster in Comoros when a Yemen Airways flight, carrying 153 people, attempted to land unsuccessfully as it approached the vicinity of Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport in Comoros on June 30th, then made a U-turn in the air before losing contact with Moroni Airport at 1:51 a.m. local time on the 30th, and crashing into Comoros. The plane lost contact with Moroni Airport at 1:51 a.m. local time on the 30th and crashed into the sea off the Comoros Islands. This air disaster at that time also stirred up the world, China's CCTV also reported in the news broadcast, only the Comoros is too small, and did not cause the ordinary Chinese people's special attention.

More than one hundred and fifty people on board all killed, the only survivor is a French girl named Bahia Bakary, she floated in the sea after 13 hours, was found sticking to the wreckage. She and her mother had traveled to the Comoros from Charles de Gaulle Airport in France. She recovered and was discharged from hospital a month after the accident.

The port of Muchamudu is the largest port in the Comoros, and travel between the four islands of the Comoros is mainly by boat, in addition to by air.

The large cargo ships of various countries, because of the port throughput, to the Comoros dock, to line up to dock, waiting for ten days and half a month in the coastal waters is a common occurrence.

? As far as I know, settled in the Comoros business Chinese there are five or six people. The large-scale machinery of the woman surnamed Chen, there are operating tobacco Wang, operating furniture and household appliances in Hebei Cangzhou people Lao Zhang, a woman surnamed solution of Sichuan, she sometimes do some translation work, run a Chinese dance and kung fu classes, there is a Hangzhou woman, operating some seafood, what I forget, their goods mainly rely on shipping, it is said that shipping is not very safe, encountered shipwrecks shipwrecks, encountered pirates, are common things, and even if they do not have to pay the price. Are often the case, even if it is safe to arrive in the Comoros, waiting for the ship to dock, and then unloading is also a very laborious and laborious thing, said above, the ship due to the row can not wait in the sea, looking at the goods can not be lifted, if the goods are damaged, lost, deterioration of the goods and so on, can only be self-admittedly unlucky. This is the first time I've ever seen a Chinese person do business with a Chinese company, and I'm sure it's been a long time.

Comorians travel by boat between the four islands very often, after all, it is much cheaper than airplanes. But disasters do happen, before I went to the Comoros, the radio and television center of a black female workers, business trips to the island of Anjouan, she took the boat encountered bad weather, hit the reef and sank into the sea, unfortunately killed.

? In the center of Comoros, there is a coach station, called the North Bus Station, the so-called long-distance bus, are old medium-sized vans, no air conditioning, the car is full of people, has long been overloaded, the driver in order to earn money as much as possible to the car to pull passengers, these cars are privately owned and operated, the competition looks pretty fierce, they yelled "haha ah! They shouted out the names of places such as "Ha-ha-ya", "Wazou", "Wazou", and so on, and the Comorian Radio and Television Center is in "Wazou". The Comorian Radio and Television Center is located in "Wazou".

Moroni airport in "haha ah", I sometimes go to the radio and television center, would like to experience a ride on the black coach feeling, but see the car crowded with so many blacks, and there is no air-conditioning, immediately canceled the idea, instead of taking a cab, Comoros cabs do not have a meter, sit once usually Comorian francs. Comoros taxi does not have a meter, a ride is usually Comorian francs 200 yuan, equivalent to two yuan, but there are a few cab drivers look at the foreigners casually ask for the price of 250 Comorian francs, we have learned to deal with them, and immediately retorted in broken French very dissatisfied with the answer "how much? We immediately retorted with a very unsatisfactory reply in broken French, "How much? We usually have some coins in hand, carry less convenient, I found an empty toothpaste belt, thickness just to put in these coins, do cab, very convenient to the driver out of two hundred coins, black drivers are also very humorous, jokingly said: "count it what, all to me on the line pour out"

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