Project | Contractor | ||||||||
Salalah International Airport | Galfar Engineering & Contracting LLC | ||||||||
Larsen & Toubro | |||||||||
Location | Year of completion | ||||||||
Salalah, Oman | 2014, Q1 | ||||||||
Consultant | Operatoin | ||||||||
Hill International | HivetecksⓇ 20T Silver
metalic 14,120㎡ |
Salalah International Airport Expansion
The project calls for expansion of Salalah Airport. Salalah is located approximately 1,000 kilometers from the capital city Muscat, Oman. Salalah Airport is located approximately 5 km from the main city centre and currently, the expansion will enable the airport to host the latest aircraft in the world, including the world's largest passenger aircraft, the A380.
A joint venture of Galfar Engineering & Contracting and India's Larsen & Toubro was awarded the main construction contract in November 2010. . Salalah International Airport has been designed to accommodate Oman's fast growing tourism, processing two million passengers annually. COWI-Larsen Joint Venture is main consultant on the project. The new airport will have an initial capacity for two million passengers a year. Alumco has been awarded Salalah International Airport MC5 package on December 2011.
The Government of Oman has appointed American consultants, Hill International, to take over the major expansion and modernization projects at Muscat and Salalah airports after cancelling the contract of the Cowi-Laursen joint venture team that has been involved for the past five years. Cowi-Laursen’s contract ends in December. The expansion is expected to be completed by 2014.
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