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Liberia Airport Concession Contract Could Be
Signed This Week
(InfoWebPress) – If there are no delays, the
concession contract for terminal
construction and management of Liberia’s
Daniel Oduber International Airport could be
signed even this week.
The National Concessions Council (CNC) gave
its rubber stamp last October to the
proposal presented by a consortium that
includes the Houston Airport System (HAS).
Daniel Oduber’s concession agreement will
extend for 20 years and will require the
concessionaire, Coriport, to complete
infrastructure works valued at $35 million.
The members of this consortium include ADC &
HAS Aviation, MMM and Aviation Group
(Canada), Brad & Tod Corporation, Cocobolo
Inversiones and Emperador Pez Espada. It was
the only bidder that submitted a proposal.
The Liberia airport’s new terminal project
seeks to eliminate crowding and other
unsatisfactory conditions currently
experienced there, including those related
to boarding gates, basic services and
infrastructure in general.
Once the contract is signed, it will go to
the Comptroller General’s Office for
approval. After that, the CNC would give
Coriport the green light to begin
construction.
The new terminal building will have two
levels: 17,637 square meters in the first
level and 5,312 in the second level, for a
total of 22,942 square meters.
Once the project is completed, the old
building will be given over to the
concessionaire for management and
modernization.
The main shareholder in Coriport are MMM and
Aviation Group (57 percent), followed by ADC
& HAS Corporation (25 percent). The rest of
the shares are owned by Costa Rican firms.
The airport’s modernization comes in
response to the increasing in traffic
experienced by the Guanacaste terminal. Even
though tourist visitation is down so far
this year due to the international
recession, it saw steady increases in 2007
and 2008. Official numbers indicate that in
2008, some 420,000 tourists arrived in Costa
Rica via Daniel Oduber, for a 3.5 percent
increase over 2007 — when 405,000 foreign
travelers chose this airport.
The greatest number of tourists arriving via
the Liberia terminal came during the month
of March 2008: 60,000 travelers.
Between 2003 and 2008, airport visitation at
Daniel Oduber grew by 44.25 percent (with
annual increases ranging between 3.5 percent
and 61 percent).
However, preliminary estimates show
visitation will decrease this year as
travelers cut back on vacations due to the
harsh economic conditions worldwide. |
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