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Nacala airport: Viability hostage to LNG projects – Noticias
2:34 CAT | 26 Aug 2020
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Nacala Airport, currently something of a white elephant, continues to await the exploitation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the Rovuma Basin to awaken it from its slumber, Noticias reports today.
This, at least, is the conviction of the national airport authorities, who believe that the start of the LNG projects will prompt a considerable upsurge in demand.
Currently, the airport, which cost US$125 million in 2014, only receives domestic flights, and its 500,000 passengers per year capacity is far from being achieved.
“The airport was designed to play a leading role in the North. When the gas industry in the northern region really begins to move people and goods, the enterprise will play its role in boosting the economy of the northern zone,” PCA of Aeroportos de Moçambique Emanuel Chaves promised.
Speaking to AIM, Chaves stressed that the size of the country alone justified it having an airport of this magnitude, in addition to being the only one capable of receiving large planes, like the Antonov 124, the largest [military] transport aircraft currently in service, which landed at Nacala during the cyclone emergency last year.
Still on the subject of regional international airports, Chaves pointed out that the Beira airport, in Sofala province, was still waiting for an upgrade post-Idai, the cyclone that devastated economic and social infrastructure in the country’s second-largest city and the central region generally.
The rehabilitation and modernisation of Beira airport is awaiting the availability of the estimated US$22 million budget.
Source: Noticias
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