Blom awarded NOK 23 million Italian contract

16 October 2009, 3:10pm

Blom CGR S.p.A., the Italian subsidiary of Blom ASA, has been awarded a NOK 23 million contract by Italian Ministry of Environment to deliver historical and new orthophotos covering the entire Italy. The project will start immediately and is expected to be completed within 2nd quarter 2010.

The new project includes Inventory Land Use of Italy for the implementation of the Community Action Plan as required by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Kyoto Protocol.

“We are proud to be the preferred provider of services for the Italian Ministry of Environment for this strategically important project” says Giovanni Banchini, Chairman and Managing Director Blom CGR S.p.A, “ This agreement is a further confirmation that our services maintain high professional and commercial level, and it is an international recognition of the expertise we represent”.

Blom will provide archived data and prepare the technical organization and production methodology for carrying out the operations covering the country. The methodology is based on the comparison of up-to-date orthophotos from the TerraItaly™ database and older orthophotos from the VOLOITALIA® database. The agreement underlines Blom’s success within the important focus area, Environmental Services.

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