공들여 왔던 14억불 규모 '필리핀 한띠와디 신공항사업' 싱가포르업체가 수주 Singapore-Led Group Wins $1.4 Billion Myanmar Airport Deal

 

Illustration of Hanthawaddy International Airport

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블룸버그통신은  싱가포르 컨소시엄이 '미얀마 한띠와디 국제공항 건설사업'을  수주했다고 29일 보도했다.   싱가포르 컨소시엄은 싱가포르 용남 지주사가 주도하고 창이공항 일본의 JGC그룹이 참여했다.   미얀마 제 2 양곤 신공항인 한띠와디 국제공항(Hanthawaddy International Airport) 은 그동안 한국공항공사 컨소시엄이 우선협상자로 선정되었다가 재원조달 문제로 올 초 협상이 결렬 된 바 있다. <에디터 황기철>

 

Singapore-Led Group Wins $1.4 Billion Myanmar

Airport Deal

 

A Singapore construction company and an affiliate of Changi Airport Group won a $1.4 billion order to build a new airport in Myanmar’s Yangon as the country repairs its infrastructure after the easing of decades of sanctions.   A consortium led by Yongnam Holdings Ltd. (YNH), which includes Changi Airport Planners & Engineers Ltd. and Japan’s JGC Corp. (1963), will develop the Hanthawaddy International Airport, Myanmar’s civil aviation agency said today. The group was invited to bid for the project after negotiations between the government and South Korea’s Incheon International Airport Corp., which was previously given the deal, broke down earlier this year.   Upgrading the airport is part of the government’s effort to create jobs in one of Asia’s poorest countries. The U.S. eased sanctions on Myanmar in 2012 and the European Union and Japan wrote off loans owed by the nation, following which Coca-Cola Co. (KO), PepsiCo Inc. (PEP) and Unilever Plc announced investments.   The new Hanthawaddy airport is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Yangon. The current Yangon International Airport is 15 kilometers from the city. The new facility will be operational in December 2019 and will be able to handle as many as 12 million passengers a year compared with the current airfield’s capacity of 2.7 million, the civil aviation agency said.   Shares Surge The design, construction, operation and maintenance of the airport and its facilities is for a 30-year period, Yongnam said in a statement to the Singapore stock exchange. The group will now enter into discussions and negotiations with the civil aviation department to finalize the details, it said.   The consortium can get official development assistance from the Japanese government with low interest rates, Win Swe Tun, director general of the Department of Civil Aviation, said at the press conference. The group didn’t ask for any government guarantee, he said.   Yongnam shares surged in Singapore the most in more than six months before the company asked for a halt in trading. JGC rose 2.5 percent to 2,716.5 yen, the highest level in almost three weeks in Tokyo.   Myanmar may need to spend some $320 billion on infrastructure by 2030 to left economic growth to 8 percent, according to McKinsey Global Institute. Yangon’s existing airport opened a new terminal in 2007 for international travel, while a facility built in 1947 is used for domestic flights.   After President Thein Sein signed a foreign investment bill to woo overseas investors, companies scouting opportunities or striking development agreements included Visa Inc., the biggest payments network, Unilever, and closely held hotel chain Best Western International Inc. Coca-Cola, the world’s largest soda maker, opened a bottling plant and pledged investment of $200 million in Myanmar.   The nation is boosting economic, military and political ties with Western nations after years of isolation. The country transitioned to a democracy in 2012 after about five decades of military rule. bloomberg

 

 

 

 

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