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Mar 18, 2013 (newstodate): The process of outlining the future of Lithuania's Siauliai Airport is moving ahead, albeit slowly.
According to the Siauliai Municipality's Investment Department, the City Council will again discuss the master plan for the airport this week and hopefully finally approve its elements and the plans for development of the airport.
Once the master plan has been approved, the process for finding investment partners will be initiated, probably in the form of an open tender.
-We do not, however, preclude any pre-tender dialogues with interested parties, and we are actually already talking to various investors, says a source in the Investment Department.
The Municipality contracted the Dutch consulting company NACO to work out a master plan that was delivered already in September 2012 but has since required a lengthy period of political discussions including a solution to the division between civil and military use of the airport infrastructure and land areas, finally landed in late 2012.
The focus of the airport will be freighter operations in cooperation with the development of a logistics center in the new Free Economical Zone established around the airport.
According to the Siauliai Municipality's Investment Department, the City Council will again discuss the master plan for the airport this week and hopefully finally approve its elements and the plans for development of the airport.
Once the master plan has been approved, the process for finding investment partners will be initiated, probably in the form of an open tender.
-We do not, however, preclude any pre-tender dialogues with interested parties, and we are actually already talking to various investors, says a source in the Investment Department.
The Municipality contracted the Dutch consulting company NACO to work out a master plan that was delivered already in September 2012 but has since required a lengthy period of political discussions including a solution to the division between civil and military use of the airport infrastructure and land areas, finally landed in late 2012.
The focus of the airport will be freighter operations in cooperation with the development of a logistics center in the new Free Economical Zone established around the airport.