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| SNC-Lavalin Airports the new manager for airport in Mayotte SNC-Lavalin, a large Canadian engineering firm, announced that the French government has awarded it a Délégation de Service Public (public service operating concession contract) for the airport in Mayotte, a French island located in the Indian Ocean, in addition to the contract to build the airport's new terminal building and upgrade the airport infrastructure. The operating concession consists primarily of management and maintenance of the airport in addition to commercial development based on regular service to and from mainland France (Paris) and inter island service in this region of the Indian Ocean. The recently signed operating concession contract is for a 15 year period. The new air terminal building will be built according to the most recent environmental standards (ISO 14001 certification) and have first class landscaping. The entire building, designed to provide optimum service for passengers, will include a restaurant area and a large commercial area. The current 1,250 m² air terminal building will be converted into administrative offices. Delivery of the new airport is scheduled for the beginning of 2013, and the work is estimated at about CA$62 million. Mayotte-Dzaoudzi is the 10th airport to be integrated into the SNC-Lavalin Airports network after the airports of Malta, Paris Vatry, Tarbes-Lourdes–Pyrénées, Cherbourg, Rouen and Tours and the airfields of Toulouse-Francazal, Vannes (Brittany) and Chalon sur-Saône (Burgundy), which provide business, leisure and tourist aviation services. write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Construction News :: home page |