Chinese/local team selected last year
Kuwaits Directorate-General for Civil Aviation (DGCA) has awarded a joint venture of Chinas Avic International Holding Corporation and the local Al-Dar (HOT) Engineering & Construction with the contract for the construction of a new runway and the extension of the existing runway at Kuwait International airport.
The team offered KWD149.8m ($492m) for the contract.
The scope of work for this contract - classified as package three under the airports redevelopment plan - includes the construction of a new code 4F west runway, the extension of the existing east runway, a new air traffic control tower, parallel taxiways, access roads and other related facilities.
The project is expected to be completed in 2020.
Construction work has also began on the $174m temporary passenger terminal at the airport. The contract was awarded in end August last year to a team of Turkeys Cengiz Insaat Sanayi Ve Ticaret and the local First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting Company. It is expected to be completed within 450 days of contract award.
This implies the temporary terminal is to be completed on or before end 2017.
Last month it was reported that the Turkeys Limak, lead contractor for the $4.3bn Terminal 2 at Kuwait International, has agreed to reduce the construction timeline from fix to four years. This means the new passenger terminal is now expected to be completed in 2020.
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