Thursday, June 25, 2009

Costa Rica Travel

New terminal contract
approved for Liberia


By the A.M. Costa Rica staff


Liberia will be getting a new $35 million airport terminal under terms of an agreement approved Wednesday by Costa Rica President Óscar Arias Sánchez and his ministers.

The agreement between the Costa Rcia government and Coriport S.A., a consortium which has agreed to design and build the two-story structure and to operate the terminal at Daniel Oduber airportin northern Costa Rica for 20 years.

The company will have five months after the Contraloría de la República approves the agreement to submit a design. Once the design is approved, the company will have six months to build the structure, according to the agreement

The new terminal in Liberia Costa Rica will handle 1,500 passengers a day instead of the 900 now.

The first floor will house immigration officers, customs, equipment handlers, airline offices and the airport administration offices.

The second floor will be departure lounges and gates for boarding aircraft, according to the proposed plan. The structure will be 22,949 cubic meters or about 810,436 cubic feet.

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