So Kuwait is seeking to expand its airport

The Emirate of Kuwait is planning already for a long time with the Expansion of its international airport. However, there were problems and delays. Now the movement comes into the thing.

In 2011, the architecture firm Foster + Partners, demonstrated how the new Terminal 2 of the Kuwait International Airport should look like: a building in the shape of a three-pointed star, with up to a 25-Meter-high ceiling and plenty of natural light. The construction should begin in 2012 and 2016 to be completed. However, the exporting companies were not with the framework agreement, and withdrew, and the project was placed in the middle of 2014 on ice.

Finally, the Turkish company Limak Construction took over the contract and said in the fall of 2016, to build the Terminal within a period of four years. In the spring of 2017, the project took more travel: In may, the Emir of Kuwait put together with Turkish President Erdogan the Foundation stone for the new Terminal.

A third runway is built

Already the end of April, the state-owned airport operator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation had announced that a 70-Meter-high Tower to be built, as well as a third runway that can receive with 4.5 kilometers in length and 60 meters in width large aircraft such as the Airbus A380. In addition, the Eastern runway will be extended. Together with Other infrastructure measures are estimated for this Expansion of approximately $ 490 million. To run it, companies from Kuwait, and China.

In addition, a so-called supporting Terminal record according to the Plan, in the first quarter of 2018, the operation, and the capacity of the airport by around 5 million passengers per year will increase, as the state news Agency Kuna writes arises at the airport. Later, the new Terminal 2 is to make the Airport and then permanently fit for up to 13 million passengers annually at the beginning, later up to 25 million.

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