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Oct 13, 2011 (newstodate): Croatia has high ambitions for the project to expand its existing Zagreb Pleso Airport, long on the wishing-list.
A tender for the concession to build and manage the airport is running now, and six companies out of ten initially listed are now participating in the final round that is ending by the end of this month.
Among other requirements, the bidders must already be managing an airport with traffic of over 10 million passengers, be unaffiliated with an airline, independent from a state budget and without shares in other airports within 400 kilometers from Zagreb Pleso Airport.
Among the projects to be shouldered by the winner in the tender are construction of a large new passenger terminal and construction of a second runway.
The planned terminal will be five times bigger than the existing one at Zagreb Airport that will then be dedicated to low-cost traffic.
In 2010 the airport handled slightly more than two mio passengers, and the first phase of the new terminal will increase capacity to five mio passengers annually.
A tender for the concession to build and manage the airport is running now, and six companies out of ten initially listed are now participating in the final round that is ending by the end of this month.
Among other requirements, the bidders must already be managing an airport with traffic of over 10 million passengers, be unaffiliated with an airline, independent from a state budget and without shares in other airports within 400 kilometers from Zagreb Pleso Airport.
Among the projects to be shouldered by the winner in the tender are construction of a large new passenger terminal and construction of a second runway.
The planned terminal will be five times bigger than the existing one at Zagreb Airport that will then be dedicated to low-cost traffic.
In 2010 the airport handled slightly more than two mio passengers, and the first phase of the new terminal will increase capacity to five mio passengers annually.