Oman Airports Management Company (OAMC) expects to begin commercial operations of the much-delayed new Muscat International airport in April.
The new terminal at the airport was initially expected to be completed in 2014.
MEED understands OAMC, in partnership with Germany's Munich Airports, has been conducting trial flight operations from the new airport since December last year.
Munich Airports is delivering the airport’s operational readiness and airport transfer (Orat) services.
Muscat International processed more than 12 million passengers and about 162,000 tonnes of cargo in 2016. These figures are 17 per cent and 21 per cent higher year-on-year, respectively.
These figures are expected to have significantly increased in 2017 as Oman’s airports have been absorbing more regional traffic since the closure in June last year of air spaces of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain to Qatar.
Last year, OAMC awarded US-based DHL with a cargo handling contract for Muscat International.
The new airport terminal has been under construction since 2010.
A team of Lebanon’s Consolidated Contractors Company and Turkey’s TAV Construction won the $1.17bn infrastructure works package for Muscat airport in 2007. A joint venture of Bechtel (US), Enka (Turkey) and the local Bahwan Engineering Company won the $1.8bn contract for the construction the airports’ passenger terminal buildings and related facilities in late 2010.
Designed by France’s ADPI, the new Muscat International airport has a capacity to handle up to 12 million passengers a year. Succeeding phases of the airport expansion plan entails bringing the airport’s capacity to up to 48 million.
The upgrade of Salalah airport in Oman's Dhofar governorate was completed by India's Larsen & Toubro and the local Galfar Engineering in 2015. It increased the airport’s capacity to 2 million passengers a year. The project included a new runway, taxiways and aprons.
Muscat International awarded packages | ||||
Key packages | Contractor | Contract value ($m) | Award | Completion |
Project management consultancy | ADPI (France) | na | 2006 | 2014 |
Principal consultant for design and supervision | Hill International (US) | 186.7 | 2012 | 2016 |
Civil works - new runway, taxiway, apron, landside development, access road to terminal | Consolidated Contractors Company (Lebanon) / TAV Construction (Turkey) JV | 1,169 | 2007 | 2016 |
Air traffic control (ATC), data centre (DC2), contingency & training building (C&T), crash, fire & rescue (CFR) | Carillion Alawi (local) | 148 | 2010 | 2014 |
Passenger terminal building | Bechtel (US) / Enka (Turkey)/ Bahwan Engineering Company (local) JV | 1,834 | 2010 | 2016 |
Civil aviation headquarters | Towell Construction (local) | na | na | na |
IT & security systems | Ultra Electronics (UK) | na | na | na |
Operational readiness & airport transfer (ORAT) | Munich Airport (Germany) | na | na | na |
Baggage-handling systems | Vanderlande Industries (Netherlands) | 73 | 2011 | 2016 |
Air traffic management systems | Indra (Spain) | na | na | na |
Navigational aids systems | Thales (France) | na | na | na |
Passenger boarding bridges | JBT Corporation (US) | na | na | na |
Detail design and construction of cargo and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities | Joannou & Paraskevaides (Greece) | 518 | 2007 | 2016 |
Detail design and construction of catering facilities | Galfar Engineering & Contracting (local) | 174 | 2013 | 2016 |
Design, supply, installation and commissioning of a new radar | Raytheon (US) | na | na | na |
Design and construction supervision services for MRO hangars and cargo facilities | Ghafari Associates (local) | na | na | na |
Design and Construction Supervision for Inflight catering facilities | Al-Hatmy Engineering (UAE) | na | na | na |
Dredging works and soil reclamation | Boskalis Westminster (Netherlands) | na | na | na |
Improving & strengthening the soil | Solitanche Bachy (France) | na | na | na |
Sources: OAMC; MEED Projects |
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