Minister confident multi-level terminal will add capacity to handle 9 m passengers annually By Charumini de SilvaThe Government will ink an agreement today withJapan's Taisei Corporation to build a multi-level terminal building at theBandaranaike International Airport (BIA). table " border="0" cellpadding="1" MinisterPrasanna Ranatunga TheCabinet of Ministers on 19 February approved the proposal submitted by Industrial Export, Investment Promotion, Tourism and Aviation MinisterPrasanna Ranatunga to award the$ 564 million contract toTaisei Corporation .
The Memorandum of Understanding will be signed today morning at the Ministry premises at the
35.15 billion. The two-part project consisting of 'Package A' and 'Package B' is funded by
"As the main international airport BIA in Katunayake is already operating with over capacity. The expansion will add the capacity to handle nine million more passengers a year," Ranatunga told Daily FT.
Under the project a new multi-level terminal building, two new piers and a link course will be built. The 'Package A' consists of construction of new multilevel terminal building (Terminal 2) with an approximate floor area of 180,000 m2, where arrivals and departures are separated vertically, Pier no.
2 and Pier no.3 with a link concourse, new parking apron and taxiways, elevated access roads, multi-story car park and public utilities.
He said that the airport was currently handling over six million passengers though it was built to handle around five million persons a year.A concessionary loan agreement for
56 billion) was signed on
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