Four consortia interested in Greek regional airport concession

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15/12/2022 17:37

ATHENS, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Greece has received initial
interest from four consortia to take over the running of
Kalamata airport in the south of the country, its sovereign
wealth fund HCAP said on Thursday.
    Fraport  FRAG.DE  has teamed up with Delta Airport
Investments and Pileas to bid for the 40-year concession to
operate Kalamata airport, on the Peloponnese peninsula, HCAP
said in a statement.
    The other three consortia are GEK Terna  HRMr.AT  with GMR
Airports  GMRA.NS , Mytilineos  MYTr.AT  with Corporation
America Airports, and Egis Airport Operation with Aktor
Concessions and Aeroports de la Cote D' Azur.
    The airport has been operated by Greece's Civil Aviation
Authority for the past 63 years and the government is offering
the new concession under its privatisation programme.
    HCAP said it expects to decide which investors qualify for
the second phase of the binding offers in the first quarter of
2023.
    Kalamata airport handled 340,000 passengers in 2019 and is
close to several popular destinations for foreign tourists.
 (Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou; Editing by Susan Fenton)
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