Azerbaijan, Baku, May 4 / Trend, A.Taghiyeva /
The tender for the third airport construction in Istanbul has been recently held in Turkey, Zaman newspaper said today.
According to a report, the Limak-Kolin-Cengiz-MaPa-Kalyon consortium won the tender. The consortium has proposed 22.1 billion euro for the project.
According to the report, 17 local and foreign companies have made bids for participation in the tender. They have purchased a package of tender documents worth 100,000 lira, paying a total of 1.6 million lira.
The third airport in Istanbul will be built near Lake Terkos in the north of the city. The airport's transportation capacity will hit 150 million passengers a year.
Earlier, the Air Transport Department of the Turkish Ministry of Transport, Shipping and Communications told Trend that the construction of the third airport in Istanbul would cost 10 billion lira.
The ministry also said the airport will be able to serve 90 million people a year during the first phase. In future, this figure will increase to 150 million a year.