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| Siemens receives supplementary order from BIAL In the summer of 2005, Siemens received an order from Bangalore International Airport Ltd. (BIAL) to equip the new airport with airfield lighting, IT and communications systems, passenger boarding bridges, a baggage handling system as well as power supply equipment and a building security and automation system. The Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) is now to install additional technical systems worth around EUR 16 million. This supplementary order means that the airport will be able to serve eleven million passengers a year in the first stage of the project - more than double the number originally planned. Completion of the airport remains scheduled for April 2008. The new international airport is being built in Devanahalli, around 30 kilometers north of Bangalore. In the final stage of the project, more than 40 million passengers and a million tons of air freight are to be handled each year. The planned airport is India's first private-public partnership in this branch of industry, with 74 per cent of the investment in the BIAL joint venture coming from the private sector. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |