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Jun 04, 2019 (newstodate): When envelopes with final bids for construction of Greenland's new airports are delivered on June 14, 2019, only five participants will be in the race.
The Chinese company China Communications Construction Company has thus withdrawn from the tender process, leaving five pre-qualified companies including three Danish bidders Aarsleff-Istak, Munck Gruppen, and MT Hojgaard, one Canadian company Pennecon Dexter JV, one Dutch company BAM International to contest for the contracts.
The withdrawal from the tender by the Chinese bidder is hardly to the regrets of neither the Danish, nor the US governments.
Both parties have been suspicious of a potential security and defence threat from admitting Chinese interests deep into the sensitive Polar region increasingly opening to commercial and military activities as waterways open up.
The projects comprise the extension of the runway at the capital airport at Nuuk to 1,800m from today's 950m, the extension of the runway at Ilulissat Airport to 1,800m from today's 845m, and the construction of a new airport at Qaqortoq with a 1,200m runway.
The Chinese company China Communications Construction Company has thus withdrawn from the tender process, leaving five pre-qualified companies including three Danish bidders Aarsleff-Istak, Munck Gruppen, and MT Hojgaard, one Canadian company Pennecon Dexter JV, one Dutch company BAM International to contest for the contracts.
The withdrawal from the tender by the Chinese bidder is hardly to the regrets of neither the Danish, nor the US governments.
Both parties have been suspicious of a potential security and defence threat from admitting Chinese interests deep into the sensitive Polar region increasingly opening to commercial and military activities as waterways open up.
The projects comprise the extension of the runway at the capital airport at Nuuk to 1,800m from today's 950m, the extension of the runway at Ilulissat Airport to 1,800m from today's 845m, and the construction of a new airport at Qaqortoq with a 1,200m runway.