"Seven firms pre-selected for Tunisian airport concession"

Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Seven firms pre-selected for airport concession
United Kingdom - The Economist


Seven firms, all foreign, have been pre-selected for the award of the
40-year concession to build and operate what will be Tunisia's ninth and
biggest airport at Enfidha, 80 km south of Tunis. The concession is in line
with government policy to give the private sector a larger role in building
and running the country's infrastructure. The airport's location was chosen
to be close to the main north-south motorway and railway and to be
convenient for the capital, Tunis, Tunisia's industrial and commercial
centre, and the tourist resorts around the Gulf of Hammamet. Construction
was expected to start in early 2005. In 2008, after a first phase of
construction costing some TD585m, the new airport is scheduled to open with
a capacity of 5m passengers per year, but it will be expanded to become the
biggest airport in Tunisia with a final capacity (probably in 2040) of 30m
per year. Tunisia currently has seven airports with a combined capacity of
10m passengers per year. Several airports are being enlarged, and an eighth
is under construction at Gabes.


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