Sunday, April 10, 2011

S. Korean firm wins Duqm airport work

MUSCAT: South Korea's Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Company won a $115-million contract to build a runway and other facilities linked to the development of a green field airport at Duqm in the Al Wusta region.
By A. E. James
MUSCAT: South Korea's Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Company won a $115-million contract to build a runway and other facilities linked to the development of a green field airport at Duqm in the Al Wusta region.

Hanjin will build the main airfield infrastructure for the airport over the next 22 months. The project work, which is part of the phase II package, include construction of a four-kilometre-long runway designed to code-F standards, two taxiways, parking apron for passenger aircraft (including an apron taxi line), and facilities for two passenger boarding bridges.

Further, the contractor will install a sophisticated air navigation and meteorology system, airfield ground lighting system, fuel farm, and apron fuel hydrant system, among other utilities.

The South Korean construction major won the contract amid stiff competition from other contracting giants, including Athens-based Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC), India's Larsen Toubro and Turkey's Makyol.

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