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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.