Airports will be transferred to management on a "batch basis"
The airports of Tashkent, Bukhara, Fergana and Urgench are planned to be transferred to management on a “package principle” (when unprofitable airports are transferred together with profitable ones).
President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev instructed to develop, jointly with the World Bank, a technical assignment for transferring the airports of Tashkent, Bukhara, Fergana and Urgench to management on a “package principle” (when unprofitable airports are transferred together with profitable ones).
The head of state said this at a presentation on expanding public-private partnership (PPP) in the fields of energy, transport, utilities and healthcare on August 5, the presidential press service reported.
According to the analysis of international experts, the modernization of existing airports in Uzbekistan will require an average of $ 800 million, it was noted at the event.
At the end of May 2019, the Russian Novaport Holding and the government of Uzbekistan signed an agreement on the implementation of an investment project for the modernization and development of the airports of Samarkand, Namangan and Urgench. It was later reported that negotiations with Novaport had come to a standstill due to the fact that the government did not agree to give the airports on a 30-year concession, as requested by the investor. In early February, the Minister of Transport Elyor Ganiev, commenting on the situation, said that foreign companies would be involved in the management of airports through a tender.
At the presentation, the head of the country also noted the absolutely unsatisfactory level of work in the direction of PPP in the field of transport and logistics. It is indicated that the development of this area will require $ 27 billion.
Today the way from Tashkent to Andijan through the Kamchik pass takes 5-6 hours, 22 thousand cars pass along the existing road. In the next 5 years, this figure will reach 40 thousand. With the launch of the Tashkent-Andijan toll road, the distance will be reduced to 3 hours, and the throughput will increase by 70%, the report said.
Shavkat Mirziyoyev stressed the importance of developing project documentation and announcing a tender for the construction of a new tunnel through the Kamchik pass.
Recall that the construction of two toll tunnels on PPP terms - on the Kamchik and Takhtakarachi passes, as well as three toll roads - bypassing the cities of Syrdarya and Bakht (Syrdarya region), Tashkent-Samarkand and Tashkent-Andijan - was envisaged by a presidential decree dated December 9, 2019 ...
Source: gazeta.uz