Kuwait awards $4.3bn airport terminal contract
KUWAIT, May 30, 2016
Kuwait has awarded Turkey's Limak Group and its local agent, Kharafi National, a contract to build a new airport terminal at a cost of KD1.31 billion ($4.34 billion), the Public Works Minister Ali Al Omair said on Monday.
The minister told a news conference that the project will be completed over six years and will raise the capacity of the airport to 25 million passengers from the current five million passengers.
Omair said it was "one of the biggest projects" under the current government development plan.
"It has been long delayed but we reached the first step," he told a news conference.-Reuters