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Feb 17, 2017 (newstodate): For more than three years, plans for a setup by Azerbaijan's Silk Way Investment LV at Riga Airport have been in the air - but no break-through has been made yet.
-We are still in talks, but it is a most complex issue and will require much time to be sorted out, says Arturs Kokars, Riga International Airport Advisor of the board.
-At least I can confirm that talks are indeed continuing.
In 2015, Riga International Airport and Silk Way Investment LV signed an MoU for the construction of a new cargo and logistics complex at the airport for handling of transit shipments by air between the CIS region, Central Asia and Europa.
Silk Way Investment is part-owner of Azerbaijan Airlines as well as operator of the cargo terminal at Baku, Azerbaijan.
The project would comprise the construction of new access roads to the airport to ease onward trucking as well as other road traffic relieving today's congestion on the existing road between the airport and Riga, and expectations in 2015 were that the new Silk Way facility at Riga would be completed by 2017.
-Riga Airport is seeing brisk growth in passenger figures but we are dedicated to see also the air cargo volumes rising. All infrastructure is in place, but we need new stakeholders in the airfreight and logistics industries to come in and generate new traffic, says Mr Kokars.
-We are still in talks, but it is a most complex issue and will require much time to be sorted out, says Arturs Kokars, Riga International Airport Advisor of the board.
-At least I can confirm that talks are indeed continuing.
In 2015, Riga International Airport and Silk Way Investment LV signed an MoU for the construction of a new cargo and logistics complex at the airport for handling of transit shipments by air between the CIS region, Central Asia and Europa.
Silk Way Investment is part-owner of Azerbaijan Airlines as well as operator of the cargo terminal at Baku, Azerbaijan.
The project would comprise the construction of new access roads to the airport to ease onward trucking as well as other road traffic relieving today's congestion on the existing road between the airport and Riga, and expectations in 2015 were that the new Silk Way facility at Riga would be completed by 2017.
-Riga Airport is seeing brisk growth in passenger figures but we are dedicated to see also the air cargo volumes rising. All infrastructure is in place, but we need new stakeholders in the airfreight and logistics industries to come in and generate new traffic, says Mr Kokars.