Senegal BER starts operating
Senegal's new capital airport takes soon the operation - after a ten-year, turbulent period of construction.
Senegal's new international airport is to be taken at the beginning of December. By the new Aéroport international Blaise-Diagne, the old Aéroport international Léopold-Sédar-Senghor in the capital, Dakar, obsolete, and closed. First, the capacity of the new airport is three million passengers per year, but in the end he has to handle tens of millions of travelers. Even capacity for the handling of an Airbus A380 to the Airport.
With the opening of the 7. December ends a ten-year construction period, which was marked by many setbacks. Financing deal of the year 2007 had to be abandoned in the Wake of the global financial crisis. In 2015, the competent construction company had to be changed. Led to further delays, lengthy negotiations with approximately 3000 families had to be resettled due to the construction also.
540 full-time positions
In the meantime, you just stand still with four of the families in the negotiations, is it from the airport, a opening nothing more to stand at last in the way. A total of $ 575 million cost of the construction of the new airport, according to the news channel CNN. However, the Senegalese government hopes that by Aéroport international Blaise-Diagne a significant boost to the local economy. 540 full-time jobs were created, with the addition of Jobs in the security, it and maintenance.
You can see in the above photo gallery impressions from the Aéroport international Blaise-Diagne.