Turkish TAV to modernize FYR airports
05 / 09 / 2008
A sad looking decapitated head of an “Alexander the Great” like statue at Skopje’s main Airport, causes passengers to look with awe and hurry away from it.
A €200m investment is planned by TAV, the Turkish airport operator, for modernization and construction works of the three airports in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia.
Due to the lack of interest from other airport operators and construction companies the contract was awarded to TAV, the sole bidder for the project.
TAV, will modernize and operate Skopje’s main Airport as well as Ohrid’s Airport for 20 years. TAV will also build an airport in Stip for cargo transportation.
CEO Sani Sener mentioned that TAV will operate an airport on European soil for the first time, confident that tender would open the gates of Europe for his company.
TAV runs three major airports in Turkey; Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, Esenboga Airport in Ankara, Adnan Menderes Airport in Izmir, as well as Tblisi and Batumi airports in Georgia and Monastir Habib Bourguiba Airport in Tunisia.
TAV also won two other tenders recently to operate GaziPasa Airport in Turkish resort province of Antalya and Enfidha Zine Abidine Ben Ali International Airport in Tunisia.
Industry experts expressed their reservations regarding TAV’s decision that may be driven not only by finacianial interests but by politics…
Both the Former Yugoslav Republic and Turkey are aspiring European candidates with close ties, with the region now occupied by the Former Yugoslav Republic under Ottoman rule for over 500 years and then as an administrative region-privince (Vardarska Banovina) under Tito’s Communist Yugoslavia that disintegrated in the early 90′s.
(Picture above: A sad looking decapitated head of an “Alexander the Great” like statue at Skopje’s main Airport, causes passengers to look with awe and hurry away from it)
05 / 09 / 2008 | Tags: INTERNATIONAL |
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