Male Airport: GMR to use 50 acres land for business

Male: Fifty acres land of Hulhule will be used for business purposes, India’s GMR from the consortium that won the Male International Airport bid said Wednesday.
Speaking to Maldivian journalists at the new terminal of New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, CEO of Hyderabad’s Rajev Gandhi International Airport P Sri Pathi said a business centre was proposed to use 50 acres (202,343 square metres) land of Hulhule for business purposes.
GMR won the bid through a consortium formed with Malaysia Airports Holdings. The company will take over the operations of the airport commencing from March 2011.
“We proposed a business centre to the government as an idea. We proposed that idea to get 50 acres of land for [business] purposes. Our idea is to make that land a business centre of the Maldives. It was proposed based on our experience and the recommendations of US experts. If the government and the public want it, we are ready to do it,” he said.
Sri Pathi noted that income could be generated by several ways other than tourist arrivals and the sector, considering the airport’s location.
07/07/10 Haveeru Online, Male

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