BELGRADE (Serbia), June 22 (SeeNews) – Serbian infrastructure minister Zorana Mihajlovic said on Thursday the deadline for submitting binding bids in a tender for a 25-year concession of Belgrade international airport Aerodrom Nikola Tesla was set at September 4.
The concession contract will be signed in the autumn of 2017, but everything depends on the binding bids, Mihajlovic said in a video file posted on the website of Serbian news agency Tanjug.
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Aerodrom Nikola Tesla is the fastest growing airport in the region and Serbia expects to sign a profitable concession, Mihajlovic told a news conference in Nis, southern Serbia.
Serbian media reported earlier this week that four consortia and one company are expected to place binding bids in the tender. The four consortia are: France's Meridiam Eastern Europe Investments, Switzerland's Zurich Airport AG and France's Eiffage; India's GMR Infrastructure Limited and Greece's Terna; South Korea's Incheon International Airport Corporation, Turkey's Yatirimlar ve isletme and Russia's VTB Capital Infrastructure; China's Hainan Air Travel Service, HNA and China National Aero Technology, Serbian daily Politika reported on Tuesday. French company Vinci Airports will place a binding bid alone, Politika said.
The Serbian government owns 83.1% of Aerodrom Nikola Tesla, the operator of Belgrade airport. The company saw its net profit drop slightly to 3.2 billion dinars ($29.3 milion/26 million euro) in 2016, from 3.3 billion dinars a year earlier.
(1 euro = 121.766 dinars)