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Honduras: Aeropuerto internacional de Palmerola avanza al 33%

El Gobierno de la República y la concesionaria  Palmerola International Airport (PIA), supervisaron los avances de un 33 por ciento en las obras del nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de Palmerola que será finalizado a principios del año 2020 según estimaciones.

Este nuevo aeropuerto se ubica a 8 kilómetros al Sur de Comayagua que serán mejorados, 75 al Norte de Tegucigalpa y 170 al Sur de San pedro Sula conectando a través de una autopista de cuatro carriles conocida como la CA- 5 Norte, que ofrece seguridad vial y personal hacia esta terminal.

El Aeropuerto de Palmerola proyecta nuevos potenciales hacia diferentes destinos del mundo  como Los Ángeles, Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Orlando, Fourt Laurderdale, Miami, Mexico city, Washington,New York,Guatemala, El Salvador, Panamá City, Bogotá, entre otros.

Fuente: La Voz de Honduras

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New airport to be established in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital

Egypt’s Minister of Civil Aviation Younis al-Masry said that a new airport larger than the Cairo International Airport will be established in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital.

He announced in Thursday statements to media outlets that he agreed with President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi on establishing this new airport which is expected to be larger and wider than Cairo International Airport, with all the needed facilities attached to guarantee passengers’ comfort.

Currently, experts are working on choosing the most suitable place within the capital for establishing the new airport.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has laid the first stone of the New Administrative Capital in East Cairo in October 2017. With an area of 170,000 feddans , the new capital will include 20 residential areas expected to accommodate 6.5 million people and a road network 650 km in length. The capital was planned to include an international airport and an electric train to link it with the 10th of Ramadan and El-Salam cities.

The New Administrative Capital is located in the area between the Cairo-Suez and Cairo-Ain Sokhna roads, east of the regional ring road. This is roughly 60km from the cities of Suez and Ain Sokhna.

The new capital is planned to be a sustainable city, housing the ministries, parliament, Egyptian Media Production City, presidential palaces, and embassies.

The New Administrative Capital Company is 51% owned by the armed forces and 49% by the New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA). The paid-up capital of the company amounts to EGP 20bn, including contributions from the armed forces and NUCA, and the authorized capital is EGP 204bn.

Source: Egypt Today

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Cancun Airport Adding New Terminal

Officials from Cancun International Airport in Mexico have announced the addition of a new terminal to meet the rising number of passengers coming through the facility.
According to the Riviera Maya News, the Airport Group of the Southeast (ASUR) has started preparations for the addition of a new terminal, dubbed Terminal 5, as part of a series of updates and improvements at the Cancun airport.

The announcement of a new terminal will cost at least $300 million and is part of an investment plan for the period 2019-2023, which also includes upgrades to the Cozumel airport. Both facilities have seen constant growth in passenger traffic numbers.
The new construction would help the airport handle an additional nine million passengers per year.
Construction on the new terminal at Cancun International Airport is set to begin later this year or early in 2019.

Source: Travel Pulse

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The Philippines Government has relaxed the eligibility rules for contract of the Clark International Airport.

The Philippines Government said it has relaxed the eligibility rules for companies seeking to participate in the auction for the operations and management (O&M) contract of the Clark International Airport.

The bidding qualifications released in May required prospective bidders to not have “a majority equity interest in a concession holder of an International Airport in the Philippines,” which would have eliminated a major construction company that runs the airport in Cebu as part of a consortium.

Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) President Vivencio B. Dizon said in a briefing on Wednesday that the eligibility terms have since been relaxed, which opens the door to companies such as Megawide Construction Corp., which operates the Mactan-Cebu International Airport.

Mr. Dizon said the new terms of reference now rule out companies currently operating such airports within the same main island group.

“So meaning, if you’re operating an airport in Luzon, then you cannot have another major airport in the same island group. Obviously Cebu is not part of Luzon where Clark is, so Megawide can participate,” he added.

The Department of Transportation (DoTr) and BCDA are currently bidding out the 25-year, P5.61-billion contract for the O&M of the Clark International Airport. The development of the gateway in Pampanga aims to decongest the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Metro Manila.

Megawide, along with its Indian consortium partner GMR Infrastructure Ltd. won the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Clark airport in December 2017. The hybrid public-private partnership structure being tested for the Clark airport separates the contracts for EPC and O&M.

The preliminary timeline for the project indicates a target for contract awarding and signing on Aug. 30, but Mr. Dizon said on Wednesday the BCDA will accept bids until late August.

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“Government will just accept whatever bids are finally submitted by the deadline (in late August),” he said.

The O&M concession is due to start on Dec. 1 for the current passenger terminal. The new terminal is scheduled to open in July 2020.

Source: BusinessWorld