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HSIA’s 3rd terminal works progress 3pc more than target
DHAKA, June 5, 2021 (BSS) – State minister for civil aviation and tourism M Mahbub Ali today said physical works of the under construction mega Third Terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) have been made three percent more progress than its actual target.
“The construction work of new terminal is supposed to be completed by June 2023, but we are expecting to done the work before stipulated timeframe,” he said while visiting the construction site at the airport in the capital.
Till today, he said, 17 percent work of the new terminal has been completed which is ahead of 14.5 percent that is targeted to complete till June this year.
He said the construction work was not suspended for a single day while the entire world had been halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aviation and Tourism secretary Md Mokammel Hossain, Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) chairman Air Vice Marshal M Mofidur Rahman and Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Dr Abu Saleh Md Mostofa Kamal were also present during the visit.
On December 28 in 2019, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the much-awaited construction work of the Tk21,300crore “Third Terminal of HSIA” in Dhaka aimed at increasing the capacity of handling more passengers and cargo.
According to a CAAB study, the airport will have passenger traffic of approximately 12 million by August 2022 and up to 22 million by 2035.
On completion of the project, the airport’s annual passenger handling capacity will be 20 million from the current eight million, and cargo capacity will go up from 200,000 tons to 500,000 tons.
The project received the green signal from the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on October 24, 2017 with an estimated cost of Tk13,610 crore.
However, in 2019, the cost was revised and set at Tk21,300 crore, of which the government will provide Tk5,000 crore and the rest will be funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
To implement the project, CAAB awarded a five-year contract to a consortium, led by the Japanese engineering and consulting company Nippon Koei.
The new international passenger terminal building will have a floor area of roughly 2.3 million square feet while the existing two terminals have a space of around one million square feet together.
Additionally, the project will implement the construction of several exits and connecting taxiways, a parking apron in Terminal 3, new roads to connect the terminal with Airport Road and a drainage system.
Passengers will be able to catch the metro rail from the terminal while a ramp will connect the terminal with the Dhaka Elevated Expressway and a ramp with the Ashkona Hajj Camp.
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