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May 25, 2018 (newstodate): Plans for a tender process to appoint a concessionaire to manage the commercial activities of Lithuania's three airports are still in the balance.
Until the latest election in Lithuania, plans were still to launch the tender in the 4th quarter of 2017, but instead the incoming government decided to look into the project again to asses potential alternate options, and work was started on a new report to prepare for a decision on the issue.
-The report will soon be finalized, probably within a month or so, and in the meantime the process has been shelved, says Marius Gelzinis, Lithuanian Airport Pls CEO since March 2018.
-Once the report has been presented and a decision made, it would require a period up to two years before a tender process could be completed, if so decided.
-All options are thus open. We do have the know-how ourselves to develop the airports with an concessionaire, but it remains a political issue whether or not to start a tender process.
-At the moment I would say odds are 50/50 either way, says Mr Gelzinis.
Since July 1, 2014, all three state-owned international airports in Lithuania - Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga - have been under unified management as one Plc, the state enterprise Lithuanian Airports, with Gediminas Almantas as its first CEO until the end of February 2018.
Until the latest election in Lithuania, plans were still to launch the tender in the 4th quarter of 2017, but instead the incoming government decided to look into the project again to asses potential alternate options, and work was started on a new report to prepare for a decision on the issue.
-The report will soon be finalized, probably within a month or so, and in the meantime the process has been shelved, says Marius Gelzinis, Lithuanian Airport Pls CEO since March 2018.
-Once the report has been presented and a decision made, it would require a period up to two years before a tender process could be completed, if so decided.
-All options are thus open. We do have the know-how ourselves to develop the airports with an concessionaire, but it remains a political issue whether or not to start a tender process.
-At the moment I would say odds are 50/50 either way, says Mr Gelzinis.
Since July 1, 2014, all three state-owned international airports in Lithuania - Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga - have been under unified management as one Plc, the state enterprise Lithuanian Airports, with Gediminas Almantas as its first CEO until the end of February 2018.