Pinto Luz reaffirmed that at the end of the month ANA will sign the contract for the consignment of the works. Works will allow a greater number of passengers to be served at the Humberto Delgado Airport.
The Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Miguel Pinto Luz, said this Tuesday that, at the end of this month, the notice of consignment of the works at the Humberto Delgado airport in Lisbon will be signed, and that that deadline must be met.
“It is public that until the end of this monthAs we had already announced, ANA Aeroportos will sign the notice of consignment of the works at the Humberto Delgado airport,” said the minister on the sidelines of a ceremony in Sines, in the district of Setúbal.
The official was questioned by journalists about a report this Tuesday from the Jornal de Negócios that indicated November 25 as the date for the signing of the notice of consignment of the works at the Humberto Delgado airport, but he did not confirm that date. “I don’t know if it’s November 25th. I also heard it today on the news, we know it was in November, that was said two months ago,” he added.
According to news from the Jornal de Negócios, the signing of the specifications will mark the beginning of the works “which will allow improve capacity and accommodate the greatest number of passengers” at the Lisbon airport “until the future infrastructure of the Alcochete Shooting Range is operational.”
The minister limited himself to indicating that the Government is “working with the Air Force in relation to the AT1 [Aeródromo de Trânsito]in the Alcochete Shooting Range grounds [e] in the new Firing Range that the Air Force and the Armed Forces need and, at the appropriate time”, what is being done will be presented.
“Surely [que o prazo é para cumprir até final de novembro] and, in December, it is also about to be fulfilled High-level assumptions report that ANA will have to present in the area of the new Lisbon airport and we will also wait until December 17 to receive this information,” he highlighted. Regarding the delays in the start of the works, the minister said that it is up to the ANA to explain this matter and added that the Government has done what it is supposed to do, that is, “pressure for these works to be carried out.”
“Whoever uses the Humberto Delgado airport today knows that it is absolutely congested and that needs an investment that it has not had for a long time. Now there is investment because there are decisions, by having decisions we can positively force, in the constructive sense of the word, the concessionaire to carry out the works to which it is obliged,” he stated.
Asked about TAP which, according to the newspaper ECO, reduced interest on debt issuanceThe governor said it was “a great news”, considering that the Portuguese airline “is on the right track in terms of management” and “trust in the markets.” “We know that the Portuguese Government wants to proceed with the privatization of TAP, we have been listening to the market and in due course we will provide information about it,” he concluded.
The Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Miguel Pinto Luz, spoke to journalists on the sidelines of the signing of the memorandum of understanding for the creation of a green corridor between the ports of Sines, Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Duisport (Germany) and the company Madoqua. This green corridor will allow the transport of alternative fuels and raw materials based on hydrogen derivatives, such as e-ammonia and e-methanol, and products such as liquefied CO2, from Portugal to northwest Europe.
Source: Observadora
