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Mar 05, 2010 (newstodate): One of Russia's 52 airports of strategic importance, Nizhny Novgorod Strigino Airport is again stressing the need for modernization and its intention of opening up for partnership with foreign or domestic investors.
The airport is currently handling only 300,000 passengers per year, with Lufthansa as the only foreign airline, but has ambitions to grow capacity to more than two million passengers in 2014.
The German consultant Hochtief has been working with the airport to draw up a new master plan and prepare the details for opening a tender to call for investors willing to inject capital into the projects.
Although equipped with two runways, 2,509 m and 2,805 m respectively, the infrastructure is obsolete, and only the 2,805 m concrete runway is equipped with ILS.
The plan is, however, long overdue. Earlier in 2008, an agreement with Moscow City government to buy 90 percent of the stake in the airport was nullified, leaving the airport company to re-think its road to modernisation.
The airport is currently handling only 300,000 passengers per year, with Lufthansa as the only foreign airline, but has ambitions to grow capacity to more than two million passengers in 2014.
The German consultant Hochtief has been working with the airport to draw up a new master plan and prepare the details for opening a tender to call for investors willing to inject capital into the projects.
Although equipped with two runways, 2,509 m and 2,805 m respectively, the infrastructure is obsolete, and only the 2,805 m concrete runway is equipped with ILS.
The plan is, however, long overdue. Earlier in 2008, an agreement with Moscow City government to buy 90 percent of the stake in the airport was nullified, leaving the airport company to re-think its road to modernisation.