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ADPi, Aeroports de Paris Subsidiary, Wins Contract to Design the New Terminal at Almaty International Airport (Kazakhstan)
ADPi (Pink Sheets:AEOPF) (Paris:ADP) has won a contract to design
the new terminal at the international airport of Almaty, the most
important city in Kazakhstan.
Yesterday, in the presence of ADPi teams and its president, Marc
Noyelle, the Kazakh official authorities laid the first stone of the
building. The works should end in less than two years.
This contract follows a first order made last year by Almaty
international airport for a revision of the airport master plan. It
hence illustrates the confidence Kazakh local authorities have in the
know-how of ADPi teams.
A combination of glass and wood, the uniqueness of ADPi's project,
is to propose a building in the shape of three yurts, traditional
tents used by nomadic people in central Asia. This layout will
facilitate future expansion of the terminal capacities, by adding
other "yurts" to the existing ones.
The new terminal will absorb the important increase in traffic
recorded by the airport (23% growth in 2006), for a traffic slightly
over 2 million passengers.
With 32,000 m(2) the building can handle, at the beginning, 1,500
passengers per hour and 2 million passengers per year. ADPi will carry
out studies to eventually reach a final capacity of 6 million
passengers per year.
ADPi was created in 2000 as a subsidiary of Aeroports de Paris. It
provides design, architecture, engineering and project management
services.
Aeroports de Paris builds, develops and manages airports including
Paris-Orly, Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Le Bourget. Aeroports de
Paris is the 2nd European airport group in terms of airport turnover
and the 1st European airport group in terms of cargo and mail.
Aeroports de Paris accomodates nearly 460 airlines, mainly the major
actors of air transport.
Benefitting from an exceptional geographical location and a major
trading area, the group's strategy is to modernize its terminal
facilities and to upgrade its quality of service. It also intends to
develop its retail and real estate business. In 2006, Aeroports de
Paris Group had a turnover of 2,076 million euros, and it handled 82,5
million passengers.