Turkish company interested in Podgorica and Tivat airports
The Turkish company TAV, which operates 17 airports on three continents, is familiar with the plans of the Montenegrin Government to valorise our airports. It is interested in entering Montenegrin market, it was said after the meeting of the minister of transport and maritime affairs Osman Nurkovic with TAV representatives.
The coordinator of the TAV Airports Holding Giray Colpan and a member of the TAV Board of Directors Zoran Krstevski expressed readiness to come to Montenegro and start talks with government’s representatives on the models of valorisation of the Podgorica and Tivat airports.
TAV representatives presented the company’s activities, stating that, among other things, it manages the airports in Skopje and Ohrid in cooperation with French companies and the Zagreb-based Franjo Tudjman airport.
TAV was granted a 30 year managing concession for the Skoplje-based Alexander the Great airport in 2012. The company invested €110m in the Skopje airport and €10m in the Ohrid airport.
“In the moment when TAV took over the management of the Skopje Airport, it had 600,000 passengers per year and it was connected to 12 destinations. Now it has two million passengers annually and flights to 37 destinations . It has a 15% annual growth,” TAV representatives said.
They added that the world standard has been achieved and that the increase in the number of passengers by a million has directly lead to creating 1,000 jobs, as well as additional 1,000 jobs indirectly in the sector of services. In this case, there has also been an increase in the number of Turkish companies that entered Macedonian market.
Minister Nurkovic said that he had the opportunity to get acquainted with the work of the Skopje-based airport in the past, and that it could not be compared to the current Alexander the Great airport.
Nurkovic said he hoped he would meet TAV representatives in Montenegro soon.
Source: CDM
