Paris, 13 December 2006
ADPI has won an international contract for the supervision and management of development projects for the two main airports of the Sultanate of Oman: Seeb international airport located in Muscat, capital of the Sultanate, and Salalah airport, located in the South of the country.
The official signature of the contract took place on December 11, 2006 between his Excellency Mohamed Al Abdullah Al Harti and Marc Noyelle, President of ADPI.
ADPI's mission will last four years. The amount of the contract stands at 7.6 million Omani riyals (about US$ 20 million).
The development project of Seeb airport aims at expanding the airport capacity to reach 12 million passengers in four years' time. The project includes a new terminal, a new runway and a new control tower as well as cargo and maintenance facilities. The development project of Salalah airport concerns the cargo activity (construction of facilities, warehouses...) and the construction of a new terminal to handle 2 million passengers. The opening of all these new facilities is planned for November 2010.
ADPI will assist the Omani Ministry of Transports and Communications and Civil Aviation Authorities. ADPI will provide project management consulting services for:
- Piloting and supervision of engineering phase,
- piloting of tenders' allocations,
- supervision of building phases,
- supervision and preparation of operations start up,
- transfer from the old to the new facilities.
ADPI, created in 2000, is a subsidiary of Aéroports de Paris. It provides design, project design and assistance services to contractors.