Three companies vie for Perm airport reconstruction
PERM. Feb 21 (Interfax) - Perm Airlines, the state enterprise that manages Perm's Bolshoye Savino airport, has received proposals from three organizations in the tender on construction of a new airport complex and reconstruction of the airport's engineering and communications systems, a source familiar with the process told Interfax.
Perm Airlines finished accepting applications on Thursday.
The identities of the applying organizations will be officially disclosed on February 22.
Three companies have confirmed to Interfax that they submitted proposals in the tender: Renova, Novaport and Basel Aero.
The management committee for Moscow airports Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo, formed for the merger of the two airports, also expressed interest in the tender, as did Bulgarian Chimiport. Novaport had not previously expressed interest.
Perm Airlines announced the tender on February 1. The application deadline was February 21 and examination of the proposals will be completed by February 28.
Negotiations with the company offering the winning proposal are to be completed by the end of March, after which an investment memorandum will be signed.
The airport upgrade is expected to boost passenger traffic capacity to 2 million a year. Bolshoye Savino boosted passenger traffic 13.6% to almost 1 million in 2012.
Perm Airlines, a state enterprise that is included in the provisional privatization plan, is to being reorganized as a stock company wholly owned by Perm territory. It began reorganizing as Perm International Airport on December 27, 2012, according to information in the Digest of State Registration. Creditors have until February 23 to file claims, after which the reorganization will be completed.
Novaport includes airports in Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Tomsk, Chita, Astrakhan, Chelyabinsk and Volgograd, which had passenger traffic totaling 6.2 million people. Freight throughput totaled about 44,000 tonnes.
Renova has formed an airport holding company, Regional Airports, from the Koltsovo (Yekaterinburg), Strigino (Nizhny Novgorod) and Kurumoch (Samara) airports, with annual passenger traffic in excess of 5.5 million.
Basel Aero, formed in 2007, manages airports in Sochi, Krasnodar, Gelendzhik, Anapa and Eysk. Passenger traffic was about 5.5 million last year, 2% more than in 2011.
