KLM Royal Dutch Airlines becomes NABA Summit main partner

For the fourth year in a row, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, has become main partner for NABA’s flagship event, the Norwegian-African Business Summit 2014.

We are grateful for our strong collaboration with KLM

- Eivind Fjeldstad, Managing Director NABAThe Norwegian-African Business Summit, to be held in Oslo on the 30th of October this year, has become the Nordic region’s largest business conference focusing on investment opportunities on the African continent. Last year more than 330 business people, Ambassadors and speakers attended the event. As a part of the main partner agreement, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will make sure that Summit speakers fly in on KLM World Business Class as well as give discounted tickets to conference delegates flying in to Oslo, via the KLM/AirFrance Global Meetings tool.– KLM is a very important partner for NABA. For our member companies their service and network across most African countries makes it much more convenient to do business in Africa, says Fjeldstad.KLM Country Director Daniel Eggenberger says:– We started cooperating with NABA for their first Business Summit in 2011, because we believed in the concept, the thorough preparation, and the organizer’s drive and energy. It has not only proven to be the right decision, but more over it has become a win-win collaboration over the last 4 years. NABA was able to establish the leading Norwegian African business platform in Norway, thus a perfect business partner for us as leading Airline Group to and from Norway to Africa, says Eggenberger.Air France KLM with its Joint Venture partner, Kenya Airways, offers more than 50 flights a day to 50 destinations all over the African Continent, directly from Amsterdam Schiphol or Paris Charles de Gaulle.– Furthermore, we have created our own online community site – Flying Blue Club Africa – where business travelers to Africa can get inspiration and tips from other business traveler. This shows the importance we attach to this world’s most exciting emerging markets, says Eggenberger.