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Senegal: Aéroport international de Dakar (AIBD)

2011/11/04

The construction of a new airport, 45 km east of Dakar, with a modern futuristic architecture. The Blaise-Diagne International Airport (AIBD), has a huge superficies of 2600 hectares, a vast, compared to 800 ha International Airport Leopold-Sedar-Senghor (AILSS), the historic infrastructure of the country, whose activity must cease once the AIBD completed.

AIBD is designed to suffer no comparison in sub-Saharan Africa. It will meet the European and American standards, will have tracks on 4000 m 45 m, which can accommodate large aircraft such as today's generation approaching, and amount the home related functions (commercial services , aircraft maintenance, storage and preservation of fresh produce, etc..).

From an initial annual capacity of 3 million passengers and 80,000 aircraft movements, expandable by modules, the new complex is expected, according to estimates, absorb traffic of 54 000 tonnes of freight in 2020.
Comparatively, in 2010, the traffic (recorded by the AILSS ) was a little additional than 1.7 million passengers, 24,000 tons of cargo and 44,000 aircraft movements.
The cost of the new airport of 350 million euros, is designed and manufactured by the Saudi Bin Ladin Group, manager of the German company Fraport AG (which manages the airports of Frankfurt, Cairo, New Delhi Lima), the French bank BNP Paribas and Moroccan foreign Trade (BMCE) lead the bank financing the project coordination. Amount this project is under the supervision of the National Agency for Investment Promotion and Major Projects (APIX).

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La construction d’un nouvel aéroport, à Diass, à 45 km à l’est de Dakar, complexe moderne à l’architecture futuriste, l’aéroport international Blaise-Diagne (AIBD), qui porte le nom du premier député africain à l’Assemblée nationale française, a une emprise de 2 600 hectares ; une immensité, comparée aux 800 ha de l’aéroport international Léopold-Sédar-Senghor (AILSS), l’infrastructure historique du pays, dont l’activité doit cesser une fois l’AIBD achevé.
L’AIBD est conçu pour ne souffrir aucune comparaison en Afrique subsaharienne. Il répondra aux standards européens et américains, sera doté de deux pistes de 4 000 m sur 45 m, qui pourront accueillir les gros-porteurs d’aujourd’hui comme ceux de la génération à venir, et abritera toutes les fonctions connexes (services commerciaux, maintenance des appareils, stockage et conservation de produits frais, etc.).

D’une capacité annuelle initiale de 3 millions de passagers et de 80 000 mouvements d’aéronefs, extensible par modules, le nouveau complexe devrait, selon les estimations, absorber un trafic de 54 000 tonnes de fret en 2020. Comparativement, en 2010, l’AILSS a enregistré un trafic d’un peu plus de 1,7 million de passagers, 24 000 t de fret et 44 000 mouvements d’appareils. L’ouvrage, d’un coût world de 350 millions d’euros, a pour concepteur et constructeur Saudi Bin Ladin Group, pour gestionnaire l’entreprise allemande Fraport AG (qui gère notamment les aéroports de Francfort, du Caire, de New Delhi et de Lima) ; la banque française BNP Paribas et la Banque marocaine du commerce extérieur (BMCE) conduisent la coordination bancaire finançant le projet. Le tout, bien entendu, sous l’égide de l’Agence nationale chargée de la promotion de l’investissement et des grands travaux (Apix).

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