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Jan 15, 2010 (newstodate): While the new passenger terminal at Riga Airport, promoted by the Latvian carrier airBaltic, will be built without state investments or commitments, the government's approval remains a precondition.
-To start developing the terminal, a "go-ahead" is required from the government. Only then we can draw up a more detailed shape of the project, both as to its financial, investment, engineering and architectural contents, says Janis Vanags, airBaltic VP corporate communications.
-The investment will come from the private sector exclusively, and our preferred investment partner is TAV from Turkey that also won the tender in 2009 for construction of a new passenger terminal - a project that lost the government's support only few months later.
-We need a government decision as soon as possible to commission the terminal in 2011, when the existing facility has exhausted its ultimate capacity limit that was technically reached already in 2007, says Mr Vanags.
-To start developing the terminal, a "go-ahead" is required from the government. Only then we can draw up a more detailed shape of the project, both as to its financial, investment, engineering and architectural contents, says Janis Vanags, airBaltic VP corporate communications.
-The investment will come from the private sector exclusively, and our preferred investment partner is TAV from Turkey that also won the tender in 2009 for construction of a new passenger terminal - a project that lost the government's support only few months later.
-We need a government decision as soon as possible to commission the terminal in 2011, when the existing facility has exhausted its ultimate capacity limit that was technically reached already in 2007, says Mr Vanags.