Ground Breaking for JKIA Greenfield Terminal is finally here
AFTER SEVERAL postponements, Kenya’s President, Uhuru
Kenyatta will preside over the ground breaking ceremony for Nairobi’s green
field terminal at JKIA, to day, December 3rd .
The US$ 653 million terminal has been has been
on the balance for a while due to financial considerations. The terminal
will be developed on a design, build, finance, operate and transfer (DBFOT)
basis. It will not get any guarantees from the Kenya government. Consequently, financiers
were slow footed in taking the risk. The terminal will be guaranteed entirely
by the strength of the balance sheet of Kenya Airports Authority, the agency
that owns airports in Kenya.
However, the authority will now foot 15 per cent of the
costs.The agency increased the
airport tax to $40 for departing passengers since last year. By now,it has
accumulated a tidy sum that it is using to begin construction work at the terminal, said Engineer Joseph Kamau, the Cabinet Secretary in charge of transport.
All necessary
inputs are in place: Two Chinese firms, Anhui Construction Engineering Group
and state-owned China National Aero-Technology International Engineering
Corporation will build the terminal jointly with Pascall and Watson Architects.
The supervising consultant is also in place.
The ground breaking
will pave for the construction, which will start soon thereafter. The work will
last 30 months, meaning terminal shall be completed by mid-2016. Engineer Kamau
indicated that three consortia have made competitive bids to finance the
project and that soon one of them will be identified and contracted.
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