L&T-led group wins Salalah airport deal

Muscat: The much-awaited RO294 million-Salalah airport expansion project was bagged by a consortium led by India's engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T). The local partner in the consortium is Galfar Engineering and Contracting Company, sources familiar with the contract told Times of Oman.
This is close on the heels of a consortium of US-based Bechtel, Bahwan Engineering Company and Turkey's INCA recently winning a RO706 million-contract to build a new passenger terminal for the Muscat International Airport.
Larsen and Toubro-led consortium won the contract amid severe competition from several other multinationals, including Turkey's Alsim Alarko Sanayi Tesisleri Ve Ticaret AS with Nagarjuna Construction Company and Joannou & Paraskeevaides (Overseas).
Sources said that Salalah airport will be able to handle one million passengers per year after the expansion. This can be scaled up to two million, with a provision for six million passengers per annum.
The scope of work for Salalah airport include design and building of a new terminal, a four kilometre-long runway, air traffic control tower, new fuel farm and fuel network, new rescue and fire fighting station, new aircraft parking hangar, air side works and other facilities.
10/11/10 A.E. James/Times of Oman/Zawya

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