Mes: diciembre 2018

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Twenty companies eye concession of Montenegro’s Podgorica, Tivat airports

A total of 20 companies have expressed interest in obtaining a concession contract for the operation of Montenegro’s two international airports – in Tivat and Podgorica, transport minister Osman Nurkovic said.

“Twenty renowned companies from all over the world are seriously interested in the concession of the Montenegrin airports. The government will try to immediately make decisions right after the New Year,” Nurkovic said, according to a Twitter post published by the Montenegrin government on Wednesday.

Nurkovic said in August the government plans to invite bids for a concession agreement with a term of 25 to 30 years for the operation of Tivat and Podgorica airports.

Montenegro hopes to find a company ready to invest at least 120 million euro ($141.2 million) in the two airports, prime minister Dusko Markovic said in September.

The airports in Podgorica and Tivat serviced a total of 1.206 million passengers in the first nine months of 2018, up 10.7% on the year, state-owned airport operator Aerodromi Crne Gore said last month.

Source: SeeNews

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El grupo francés Vinci toma el control del aeropuerto de Gatwick

El grupo francés Vinci toma el control del aeropuerto de Gatwick

Vinci Airports, filial del grupo constructor francés Vinci Concesiones, ha firmado un acuerdo para adquirir una participación del 50,01% de la sociedad Gatwick Airport, por 2.900 millones de libras (3.220 millones), con lo que se convertirá en el accionista mayoritario del segundo aeropuerto más grande en Reino Unido, y octavo con mayor flujo de viajeros en Europa, con un volumen de 45,7 millones de pasajeros al año.

El 49,99% restante será administrado por su asociado Global Infraestructure Partners con experiencia en dicho aeropuerto desde el año 2009, según ha detallado en un comunicado el grupo francés, que amplía con esta compra su red a 46 aeropuertos repartidos en doce países (228 millones de viajeros al año).

SERÁ EL AEROPUERTO MÁS GRANDE DE SU RED.

De hecho, Gatwick se convertirá en el aeropuerto más grande de la red mundial de Vinci Airports. Los aeropuertos ubicados en el mercado londinense manejaron más de 170 millones de viajes de pasajeros en 2017.

Gatwick Airport Group reportó ingresos totales 764,2 millones de libras esterlinas (848,2 millones de euros) y un resultado bruto de explotación (Ebitda) de 411,2 millones de libras esterlinas (456,4 millones de euros), a cierre del 31 de marzo de este año. Ubicado al sur de Londres como su segundo aeropuerto más grande, Gatwick contabiliza más de 46 millones de viajeros al año y ofrece conexiones a 228 destinos en 74 países.

Source: Europa Press

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Saudi Arabia to privatize Jeddah airport by first half of 2019

The Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) plans to appoint a private company to manage King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah by the first half of next year, the authority confirmed to Zawya by email.

Earlier this year, the GACA terminated a concession agreement with Singapore’s Changi Airports International and Saudi Naval Services to operate the airport in Jeddah, after awarding the contract last year for a period of 20 years.

King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA) witnessed a record number of passengers in 2017 reaching 34 million, a 9.4 percent increase over the year earlier, Arab News reported, citing figures from a KAIA report.

The privatization of the airport in Jeddah is part of a larger plan by the kingdom to corporatize its airports, with transport being identified as a priority sector in the overall privatization reform plan for several industries.

However, sources told Reuters in April this year that the privatization plan for the kingdom’s second biggest airport, King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh, has been put on hold.

Saudi Arabia had announced earlier that it plans to raise around $200 billion through privatization programs in 16 sectors ranging from airports, oil, healthcare and education among others.

Source: Thomson Reuters Zawya

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Airports Authority of India launches tenders for six O&M concessions

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has issued Requests for Proposals (RFP) for the operation, management and development of the following six international airports:

  1. Jaipur International Airport; serves Jaipur, the capital of the northeastern state of Rajasthan, located 13km from the city centre. Handled around 4.76 million passengers in the year ending March 2018, making it the eleventh busiest airport in India.
  2. Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport; serves Lucknow, the capital of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, located 12km from the city centre. Handled over 4.75 million passengers in the year ending March 2018, twelfth busiest airport in India.
  3. Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport; located at Borjhar, 26km from Dispur, the capital of the state of Assam, and 28km from Guwahati, the largest city in the state and the north-east region. Handled almost 4.67 million passengers in the year ending March 2018.
  4. Manguluru International Airport; serves Mangaluru, a coastal city in the southwestern state of Karnataka. Handled just under 2.27 million passengers in the year ending March 2018.
  5. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport; serves Ahmedabad, the largest city in the western state of Gujarat, located 9km from the city centre, as well as state capital Gandhinagar. Handled over 9.17 million passengers in the year ending March 2018, eighth busiest airport in India.
  6. Thiruvananthapuram International Airport; serves Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the southwestern state of Kerala. Handled just under 4.5 million passengers in the year ending March 2018.

The term of the concession agreements shall be for a period of fifty years. The selected concessionaires shall broadly be responsible for operations and management of the existing airport assets as well as for designing, engineering, financing, construction and development of further/additional air-side, terminal, city-side and land-side infrastructure.

The concessionaires will pay a monthly per-passenger fee pay to AAI, in respect of each passenger (both domestic and international) handled at their respective airports.

Proposals for all six airports are due on 14 February 2019. AAI plans to issue Letters of Award (LOAs) on 28 February.

Source: Infra PPP