MEED reported that Kuwait’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation has short listed two bidders for a contract to build a runway, aircraft hangars and roads at Kuwait International airport.

The first short listed bidder is a group of Alghanim International General Trading & Contracting Company from Kuwait and Gulf Leighton from Australia. The group was the low bidder with an offer of KWD 140 million for the job back in August.

The other short listed group is Kuwait’s Mohammed Abdulmohsin al Kharafi & Sons General Trading & Contracting with Turkey’s TAV. This group was the second lowest bidder at KWD 167 million. The other bidders which failed to make the Directorate General’s shortlist are Kuwait’s Ahmadiah Contracting & Trading Company with France’s Bouygues at KWD 168 million, Kuwait’s Green Line General Contracting Company with Turkey’s Yuksel at KWD 213 million, Egypt based Arab Contractors at KWD 226 million and Kuwait’s Combined Group Contracting Company with Dubai based Al Naboodah Contracting at KWD 259 million.

The Kuwaiti authorities also plan to build a second terminal at the airport. They are in the final stages of selecting a consultant to design the terminal. The new building will be linked to the airport’s existing terminal through a tunnel. The terminal and runway are part of a wider plan to expand the airport, which could bring passenger capacity up to 20 million per year from its current capacity of 6 million.

(Sourced from MEED)