Mes: agosto 2018

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Gabon : un partenariat de gestion d’un nouvel aéroport liera GSEZ Airports et EGIS

Gabon Special Economic Zone (GSEZ) Airports, filiale du groupe Olam et le groupe ingénieriste polyvalent Egis ont paraphé un document de partenariat conjoint pour la construction et le développement d’un nouvel aéroport à Nkoltang, à plusieurs kilomètres de Libreville.
Selon le président directeur général de GSEZ, Gagan Gupta, « la connaissance et la compréhension qu’Egis a du contexte local ainsi que son immense expérience en matière de construction d’aéroports, permettront à nos deux groupes, à l’unisson, de fournir un aéroport de pointe à Libreville. Cet aéroport va réaliser le rêve gabonais de transformer Libreville en un hub aéroportuaire en Afrique centrale et de l’Ouest ».
Rappelons que l’aéroport de Libreville est la première concession confiée en 1988 à Egis Airport Opération. Cette mise en concession a été l’une des premières en Afrique. Egis Airport Operation, en tant que partenaire opérateur, accompagne la concessionnaire dans l’exploitation et le développement de l’aéroport, par l’apport de savoir-faire et d’expertises dans les domaines clés de l’exploitation aéroportuaire, aéronautique et extra-aéronautique.
Egis dispose de bureaux au Cameroun, en République du Congo, en République Démocratique du Congo, au Tchad, en Guinée Équatoriale, au Gabon et en République Centrafricaine.
Le futur aéroport de Libreville se voudrait à l’image de l’Aéroport Dakar Blaise Diagne financé à hauteur de 600 millions d’euros, et situé à 47 km à l’est de Dakar et dont la première pierre avait été posée le 4 avril 2007. L’inauguration avait été faite par le président Macky Sall, en compagnie de certains de ses pairs, le 7 décembre 2017.

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Casablanca Airport’s Terminal 1 Is Still Not Open despite ‘Completion’

After a decade of work and a series of delays and un-kept promises, Mohammed V Airport’s Terminal 1 is still not open.

The Terminal 1 project, which was undertaken nearly a decade ago to expand the Casablanca-based airport’s reception capacity, was reportedly completed in March and expected to open in July.

In early June, airport authorities, together with Royal Air Maroc (RAM) management, issued a statement saying the terminal was undergoing its final trial period and would be operational by July.

The source then apologized for delays and previous unfulfilled promises which he said were “due to a long period of tests which started in early March.”

Despite promises that the facility would open this summer to meet Casablanca’s status as a rising international hub for air travel, Terminal 1 is still not operational and travelers continue to face Mohammed V Airport’s traditional issues—overcrowding, long hours for check-in, and long lines at customs.

It’s ‘complicated’

Speaking to Moroccan outlet Medias 24 on Friday, August 3, a source from Royal Air Maroc (RAM) described the situation as “complicated.”

He mentioned “overcrowding due to increasing international arrivals this summer and ongoing troubles at RAM” among the many factors making a number of customers’ experiences at Mohammed V “uncomfortable.” In RAM’s defense, however, the source added that “everything is ready” at Terminal 1, but “RAM has still not received the green light from ONDA, the National Office of Airports.”

A source from ONDA blamed the delay on the current situation at the airport, saying that the reasons for the delay are “more complicated than it would seem” and that opening the facility in this busy period of summer would have created further complications at the airport. He said it would be more convenient to the facility in a less busy period, to avoid “technical concerns” that may result from having to close some parts of the airport.

“After a series of delays, it is becoming gradually obvious that that the terminal will open in September.

With 84 check-in counters and 17 boarding gates, authorities expect that Terminal 1 will double Casablanca’s airport reception capacity and meet the demands of customers by making Mohamed V “a modernized airport equipped with state-of-the-art technology.”

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Good response to pre-bidding for Bhogapuram International Airport

The pre-bid conference for request for proposals for the development of a greenfield international airport at Bhogapuram in Vizianagaram district saw 13 reputed national and international agencies/companies taking part. Ajay Jain, Principal Secretary, Energy, Infrastructure, Andhra Pradesh, said: “Thirteen agencies were taken on the field visit at Bhogapuram for better understanding of the field conditions. The agencies are expected to submit their response to the RFQ (Request for Quotation) by September 10.”

Ramky, Essel, GVK, GMR, ADPI (France), NIIF (with Fraport), Oberoi, AECOM of America, BIAL, Reliance with Zurich Airport, Italy Group (EPC and minor stake in Airports) are among those who participated in the meeting.

Jain said the commercial operations from Dagadarthi, Nellore airport will commence from January 2020. Dagadarthi is envisaged as a low-cost, no-frills airport on a public-private partnership (PPP) basis. The 1,352-acre airport project to be developed at a cost of ₹368 crore will be the first in bifurcated Andhra Pradesh to come up on a PPP basis.

The passenger air traffic has increased at an annual growth rate of 33 per cent from 1.3 million passengers per annum in 2014 to 4.1 million passengers per annum in 2018, Jain said.

Source: The Hindu Business Line

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Kurdistan: new terminal opened at Sulaimani Airport

The Sulaimani Governorate on Monday revealed the city’s international airport had been expanded, including the opening of a new terminal to accommodate more passengers.

Governor of the Sulaimani Province, Haval Abubakr, during a press conference after the opening ceremony for the new terminal, suggested plans to build an even larger airport in the city.

The new terminal, for which the private sector was contracted to build, offers space for travelers to wait for their flights, go shopping, lounge in cafes, or eat at high-end restaurants.

“The Sulaimani Airport receives 1.5 million passengers a year, domestically and internationally,”

He additionally claimed there are “plans to build a large international airport” in the city “with the support of the private sector.”

Abubakr did not specify when the larger project would begin.

The Governor along with Qubad Talabani, deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region, called on Turkey to resume flights to and from the Sulaimani airport.

On Sunday, according to Abubakr, a delegation from the province of Sulaimani was to visit Baghdad to discuss the resumption of direct flights between Turkey and the Sulaimani International Airport.

Turkish Airlines imposed a flight ban on the Kurdistan Region in response to last year’s independence referendum.

In late-March, Turkish Airlines resumed its flights with the Erbil International Airport, excluding Sulaimani for “security reasons.”