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| Belgrade Airport to resume development projects following record profit |
Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport will invest a total of 34.1 million euros in upgrading and expanding its facilities this year, as well as improving security measures. The fifteen million euro expansion of the airport's Terminal 2 building, initially planned to begin last December, has been delayed, with work to commence this year instead, although no firm date for the start of construction has been announced. It will include the development of an additional 11.000 square metres of space, four air bridges for widebody aircraft and four gates for accessing remote stands. This week, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said it is prepared to back the airport's development plans. "The EBRD is ready to take on an active role and give its support to the airport's development", the Minister for Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Zorana Mihajlović, said, after meeting with EBRD officials. She did not elaborate on how exactly the international financial institution could be involved in the project.
The airport's Managing Director, Saša Vlaisavljević, says some 6.5 million euros are currently being invested in upgrading safety equipment and technology, with the purchase of additional x-ray machines, body scanners, fire trucks, bomb detectors and other screening devices in order for the airport to meet the United States Transportation Security Administration's strict standards, a prerequisite for flights to the US, planned to commence this June. Furthermore, the overhaul of the airport's Terminal 1 building will resume this year and space will be made for additional waiting areas in order to improve amenities for transfer passengers connecting onto other flights. Mr Vlaisavljević notes that all of the improvements will be financed from the airport's own funds. According to the Managing Director, the airport recorded a net profit of 21.1 million euros in 2015.
Last week, the Serbian Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vučić, said the airport will either be privatised or put up for concession by the end of this year. He noted that procedures to select a privatisation advisor have been scrapped and the government will now enter direct negotiations with a potential advisor. The move comes after six interested parties were unhappy with the offered reimbursement fees. According to Mr Vučić, the airport's concession fee could fetch up to 500 million euros. Last week, sources close to the Turkish-based TAV Airports Holding said it was in talks to purchase rights to operate the airport, with further details to be revealed next month. TAV runs Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport and a further thirteen airports across the world, including those in neighbouring Macedonia and Croatia.
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Being a minority shareholder is not the same as running an airport and in order to benefit from its financial results, according to international accounting principles - followed by TAV, they cannot include a minority shareholding in the P/L under normal operations but under "others" as in contribution or loss.
I have to admit that I was a bit confused when I read here on this blog that TAV ran airports in Croatia. I was thinking that I must have missed something....??
У другој фази, пројекат је предвиђао доградњу спрата на Т2, раздвајње долазних и одлазних путника и да се колико толико она ружна архитектонска коцка од Т2 мало улепша стакленом фасадом. Било је то интересантно решење.
Онда дошли избори. Примитивни и необразивани дошли на власт, поставили свог човека да уради исто што је урадио са Јат Ервејзом док је носио дрес са другим страначким бојама и врло успешно гура аеродром у губитке.
Аеродром је малопре поменути пројекат требало да финансира сопственим средствима, а сада како читам у уводном тексту за нову скаламерију чије смо лоше рендере имали прилику да видимо и којом ће се аеродром додатно наружити се помиње "подршка" ЕБРД-а.
Машала, уместо драгуља којег смо сами деценијама стварали, способног не да се сам издржава, већ и да доноси солидне новце, са необразованим кадром који је преузео све полуге, ћемо ускоро бити у прилици још и да доплатимо неком будућем купцу или инвеститору.
https://www.facebook.com/mitrovicdarko/videos/10207290751360214/
And Ataturk is where?
I agree, this is bad.
http://www.blic.rs/vesti/ekonomija/posle-25-godina-avion-er-srbije-za-prekookeanski-let-u-maju-slece-u-beograd/0hrvnqg
Good lord...
Who said that exactly? Are you one of the people in the video? lol
Unless promotional videos are not supposed to be seen by the masses.
Scakako mi je drago zbog zaposlenih i EY koji se trudi da ASL stane na noge .
I nadam se da ce doci jos koji i da se nece cekati puno na to.
INN-NS
Body scanner(s) will have to be added to security at holding areas capable of large aircraft such as C3-C4 joint area before June. They didn’t even install them, yet that solution is already obsolete!
Belgrade, just like other airports, will have to move away from current security at each gate and implement centralized security at some point. They will also need to physically separate incoming passengers and body scan each and every incoming transfer passenger. For example, Amsterdam Schiphol is currently undergoing major renovation that also includes security changes. Unlike old setup, all incoming transfer passengers for example from F gates are now being fed through new security between F and E gates before joining common departure lounges. Everyone has to go through body scanner, passenger access is directed using garage door-like gates to minimize queues, return of empty trays is optimized, natural wood and eco-friendly design dominates. Belgrade just needs new management and a new terminal!
Ajde što je to netko uradio, ali što je to netko emitirao! Ajme majko...