Construction of the new Zagreb International Airport passenger terminal is proceeding as planned and is even two months ahead of schedule, and management said on Monday that everything would be ready by early December 2016 as planned.
At today's presentation of the course of construction works, reporters could see that they had advanced far since June.
About 450 people are working round the clock on the construction site and only rain disrupted the work to some extent over the summer, said Josko Mikulic, management board chairman of the Viadukt construction company.
The chairman of the airport's management board, Bruno Mazurkiewicz, said everything would be ready by December 2016, when the airport's capacity should be 3.5 million passengers, as against the current 2.2 million. The airport would then be further expanded to reach the capacity of five million.
Construction Minister Anka Mrak Taritas and Transport Minister Sinisa Hajdas Doncic said they were pleased that everything was proceeding as planned.
The new terminal project is well-prepared and proceeding well, "even though during preparations we were called national traitors because a private partner is building" the terminal, said Hajdas Doncic.
The airport said it recorded a seven percent increase in turnover in the first nine months of the year and that foreign airlines were not cancelling cooperation but constantly introducing new flights.
The investment in the new passenger terminal amounts to EUR 331 million, of which 243 million for the terminal's design and construction, and 88 million for maintaining the airport for the duration of the concession.
The concession agreement envisages the financing, design and construction of the new terminal, which will replace the current one, as well as airport management over 30 years, new runways, a cargo terminal, a parking lot, and other infrastructure.
