Romanian tie-up completes Schengen terminal at Timisoara airport

The new Schengen terminal spans 12,000 sq m and has six security filters, eighteen check-in counters, and eight boarding gates, Concelex Engineering, which is the project coordinator, said in a press release on Monday.

The terminal is designed to serve a total of 1,554 concurrent passengers across its two flows - external departures and external arrivals. It has a luggage processing capacity of 1,600 bags per hour for the external departures flow, while the arrivals flow allows for three flights to be processed at the same time.

The value of the contract signed by Concelex Engineering for the project was 115.13 million lei ($25 million/23.2 million euro). The Schengen terminal was inaugurated on March 29.

The project cost a total of 192 million lei - the largest investment in the history of Timisoara Airport, and was financed from non-refundable EU funds received through the Large Infrastructure Operational Programme (POIM), transport minister Sorin Grindeanu said in a social media post.

Romania and Bulgaria joined the Schengen area partially on March 31 when internal air and maritime border controls were lifted.

Founded in 1994, Concelex Engineering develops residential, civil engineering, infrastructure, and energy projects, operating in Romania and other EU countries such as Germany and Austria.

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