Civil Aviation: Taif, Abha, Hail and Qassim airports were offered to the private sector
Advertise President Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al-Duailej, proposed Abha, Taif, Qassim and Hail are in front of the private sector, and the beginning will be at Abha International Airport.
The announcement of the offering came during the speech of the President of the General Authority of Civil Aviation today in a panel discussion entitled "Logistics infrastructure investment between joint financing and future opportunities" It is the first session within the activities of the second day of the Supply Chain Conference, which began its work yesterday in Riyadh, in the presence of the Minister of Transport and Logistics Nasser bin Saleh Al-Jasser.
Airport Privatization
Al-Duailej said: The offers submitted to privatize Abha Airport will be decided in the coming months, as 100 companies have submitted offers that are currently being considered. The Abha Airport privatization project aims to raise the operating capacity from 1.5 million to 13 million. Traveling in 3 stages.
And about the Saudi experience with Al-Duailej said: The beginning was in 2016, when Medina Airport was privatized in an experiment that was a pioneering global model, noting the great success achieved by the experiment, as the airport’s capacity was increased from 3 million to 8.5 million passengers, and it was agreed to increase the capacity to 18 million.
The President of the General Authority of Civil Aviation stressed that the relationship between the government sector and the private sector is based on governance, quality and organization from The government side and financing, design, implementation and operation by the private sector.
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