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Mar 07, 2011 (newstodate): Bulgaria is again mulling plans for privatization of the airports at Plovdiv and Rousse.
In the plans now are tenders for 35 year management contracts of the airports that are now state-owned.
In the requirements for a new operator of Plovdiv Airport serving the country's second-largest city is the obligation to build a new cargo terminal, while a new manager of Rousse Airport, a former air force base, will be required to restore air traffic to the airport that has been without traffic since 1999.
The situation at Plovdiv is more complex as the airport terminal is now majority-owned by a Danish company, Nordic Airport Infrastructure that acquired it from its former Bulgarian owner, the investment company Alfa Finance Holding that sold 58 percent of the shares in the terminal in April 2010.
In the plans now are tenders for 35 year management contracts of the airports that are now state-owned.
In the requirements for a new operator of Plovdiv Airport serving the country's second-largest city is the obligation to build a new cargo terminal, while a new manager of Rousse Airport, a former air force base, will be required to restore air traffic to the airport that has been without traffic since 1999.
The situation at Plovdiv is more complex as the airport terminal is now majority-owned by a Danish company, Nordic Airport Infrastructure that acquired it from its former Bulgarian owner, the investment company Alfa Finance Holding that sold 58 percent of the shares in the terminal in April 2010.