Lufthansa Consulting signs MoU with governorate of Nineveh Province

The Iraqi Government and Lufthansa Consulting continue their successful collaboration to establish international standards for the
country’s future aviation development: During the recent Iraqi-German Business Forum in Berlin, the Governor of the Nineveh
Governorate, H.E. Athil Abdulazeez Al Najafi, and Lufthansa Consulting signed a Memorandum of Understanding regarding the
development of Mosul International Airport in the provincial capital in North-Western Iraq.

Since August 2011 the German management consulting company has provided consultancy in previous projects by evaluating and
optimizing the ground handling requirements and services at Iraq’s major airports Baghdad, Basra and Mosul. The latest agreement
concerning Mosul International Airport covers the definition of the airport strategy and airport marketing, the search for new airlines
and the expansion of aviation-related business such as catering, aircraft maintenance as well as the training of qualified staff.

Furthermore, Lufthansa Consulting will prepare the privatization of ground services at the Iraqi airports. The aviation experts have
been commissioned exclusively by the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Iraq to manage the tender process in a concession
procedure where the government requires a strategic partner with substantial ground handling experience.

The overall project aim is to raise Iraq’s air traffic back to an international level and to attract new clients to the country’s airports in the future.