Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbekistan Airports purchased two new ambulifts from local manufacturer MCity for Tashkent airport. In total, four such special vehicles are currently used at the capital’s airport.

An ambulift is a specialized lift designed for boarding and disembarking people with disabilities into/from the aircraft cabin. It has a spacious covered body that opens on both sides and is designed for passengers in wheelchairs, bedridden passengers on stretchers and accompanying personnel.

The strategic work of Uzbekistan Airports to update and modernize the special transport fleet also continues.

In particular, new machines for the supply of drinking water, apron buses, sewage disposal machines, universal machines for cleaning at the airfield complex, machines for de-icing aircraft, aircraft tugs, air starting installations for engines, ground-based air conditioning units in the aircraft cabin, and other equipment were purchased.