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(InfoWebPress) – Officials estimate that in
about two weeks, the management contract for
Liberia’s Daniel Oduber International
Airport will be sent to the Comptroller
General’s Offfice for final approval.
If the Comptroller rubber-stamps the
contract, expansion works at the airport are
estimated to begin in August, which means
the new terminal infrastructure could be
ready by February of 2010.
Even though the new works at the airport are
fully designed and have the respective
feasibility studies, the group of Canadian
banks that offered financing for the project
asked as a condition to be first satisfied
with the contract — which should occur in
the next few weeks.
But even before the new management contract
is set in stone, Daniel Oduber has benefited
from constant improvements to its
infrastructure due to the increase in
tourist visitation arriving in Liberia.
For example, since February the current
terminal has had a new parking platform for
11 wide-fuselage airplanes, a land equipment
platform, and has experienced significant
improvements to other surfaces.
These works began last November and were
delivered in February. The Ministry of
Transportation and Public Infrastructure (MOPT)
invested a total of 3.796 billion colones
($6.9 million) in these projects.
Most of the funds (some 3.3 billion colones)
went to expanding the parking platform by
34,500 square feet, adding to the existing
46,730 square feet, according to Civil
Aviation General Office (DGAC) experts.
This project created a lot more room to park
aircraft. The surface was constructed in
concrete, because fuel spills damage asphalt
surfaces. In the already existing parking
area (which had room for seven airplanes)
the asphalt surface was coated and sealed to
keep gasoline from causing further damage.
Meanwhile, the airport’s new land equipment
surface, officials said, is very important
because it serves as the “parking” space for
all vehicles used for taking off and landing
of airplanes — such as tow vehicles, baggage
carts, and others.
Another 310 million colones were invested in
repairing the landing strip, including
filling potholes, cracks and eliminating
other obstacles, plus painting of lines all
throughout.
As part of this same project, the surface of
the landing strip where airports make
contact (500 meters long by 16 meters wide,
out of the strip’s 2,750 total meters in
length and 48 meters in width) was
significantly improved. The existing surface
material was removed, pouring a new
10-centimeter (4 inches) wide surface with a
20-year useful lifespan. These works were
done with DGAC 2008 budget funds.
In addition to these works, the airport was
outfitted with new fire-extinguishing trucks
to deal with emergencies involving large
aircraft.
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