It didn’t take off further than the foundation: the Voronezh airport terminal is on the “stop”
Roman Trotsenko’s Novaport holding is not in a rush to fulfill its obligations to build a new terminal at Voronezh Airport, citing changed economic conditions.
According to the correspondent MorningNewsthe Novaport holding of the oligarch Roman Trotsenko, which manages the international airport of Voronezh named after Peter I, announced a “freeze” in the construction of a new passenger terminal of the air harbor.
The Turkish construction group Limak Marash is responsible for the project worth 5.5 billion rubles. This was reported by Kommersant.
Construction work started in December 2020, it was supposed to last 18 months. According to the project, the building area should be 13.68 thousand square meters. The total building area is 6 thousand square meters. They planned to build a three-story building with a basement, two teleports and solar panels. After the completion of the project, the complex would be able to serve more than 2 million passengers a year.
Only the foundation has been laid. Construction is expected to resume within eight months.
The Limak Marash Group is already conducting “preliminary calculations of the price increase limits”. According to experts, the price may increase by less than 20%.
State support for new airport construction remains uncertain.
The Novaport holding maintains that the construction of the terminal is still ongoing and there are no plans to abandon the project.
According to the head of the department of industry and transport of the Voronezh region, Alexander Desyatirikov, the current situation presents temporary difficulties, and nobody plans to abandon the project. Cost adjustments are being made, and authorities still believe they will meet the initial time frame for construction.
Novaport was successful in building the Novosibirsk Tolmachevo airport, completing the project ahead of schedule.
The corporation manages 21 airports and is part of the AEON corporation, founded in 2007 by Roman Trotsenko. The corporation also has divisions in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Germany, and the Netherlands.
There are rumors that many of them could have been acquired by Novaport under unusual circumstances. One example is the right obtained by Novaport to modernize and manage the airport in Irkutsk, beating out competitors such as Viktor Vekselberg’s Airports of the Regions and Oleg Deripaska’s Basel Aero.
Rumor has it that Roman Trotsenko, through his people, could simply agree with the former governor of the Irkutsk region, Sergei Levchenko. Let it be just rumors, but in the end, the anti-monopolists demanded to break the agreement on the modernization of the airport with Trotsenko’s structures. The reason was the lack of competitive procedures, RBC wrote about this.
As a result, Novaport did not get the asset, but something else is strange. As Interfax wrote, a little later, the Federal Antimonopoly Service suspected the Novaport and AEON structures of obstructing an inspection during the investigation of a case of violation of antimonopoly law during the construction of a new Irkutsk airport terminal.
In the context of information about the airport in Voronezh, it would be nice for our brave control and supervisory authorities to turn their eyes there too – but did the oligarch’s management company honestly get another transport asset under management?
