24-09-2010: Sibu Airport RM136mil expansion now on

Friday September 24, 2010

Sibu Airport RM136mil expansion now on

By TIENG KING MIO
sarawakstar@thestar.com.my

EXPANSION work, costing RM136.88mil to the Sibu Airport will be implemented soon.
Second Finance Minister Datuk Sri Wong Soon Koh said the handing over of the site to the successful bidder Musyati Sdn Bhd, a local company, was performed on Sept 13.

“Currently, the contractor is in the midst of constructing its office at the site,” he told a press conference in Sibu yesterday.Wong, also Environment and Public Utilities Minister, said the project would be in two packages and implemented simultaneously.

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Package 1 will consist of the extension works on existing passenger terminal building, central utilities building and associated works, costing RM84,444 while package 2 comprised works on airside and landside works, the DCA building and associated works, costing RM52,444, he added. He said the whole project, funded by the Ministry of Transport, was expected to be completed in 24 months’.

Apart from the expansion works, he added Sibu Airport had earlier also undergone extension works on its tracks, costing RM70mil which was completed two years ago.As a result, the airport could now accommodate bigger aircraft such as Airbus, he added.


Source / Sumber: The Star Online