Dakar-Blaise Diagne Airport
| Dakar-Blaise Diagne Airport | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | GOBD |
| IATA code | DSS |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 88 m (289 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 45 km east of Dakar |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 7th December 2017 |
| operator | Summa-Limak |
| surface | 1000 ha |
| Flight movements |
80,000 |
| Capacity ( PAX per year) |
3 million |
| Start-and runway | |
| 01/19 | 3500 m × 60 m asphalt concrete |
The Aéroport International Blaise Diagne (AIBD) is the new international main airport of the Senegalese capital Dakar . The airport opened on December 7, 2017. He replaced the Dakar-Léopold Sédar Senghor airport , as it no longer met the requirements for increasing passenger numbers and freight rates.
The new airport is 45 kilometers southeast of Dakar, near the municipality of Diass (also Ndiass ) in the Thiès region . It serves as the home base and hub of the national airline Air Sénégal .
Data
On an area of almost 1000 hectares (for comparison: the previous airport has to be content with 600 hectares), first one and later a second runway, each 3500 meters long and 60 meters wide, will be built in two construction phases, which will also be used for the next Generation of wide-body aircraft are sufficient. Up to 3 million passengers per year can be handled there, with the possibility of expansion to a capacity of 5 million. The possible number of take-offs and landings per year will be increased from 33,000 to 80,000.
operator
In 2007, the German Fraport AG received the order to operate the airport in cooperation with an international consortium for a period of 25 years. After a construction freeze of several months, which was caused by a financial conflict between the government and the construction company Saudi Binladin Group , Fraport withdrew from the concession agreement in 2015. A consortium of the Turkish construction companies Limak and Summa then received the order in April 2016 to complete the construction work as part of a subcontract from the Bin Laden Group. The consortium also took over the tasks of airport operator for a period of 25 years .
Planning and construction
The following project objectives were decisive for the decision to build a new international airport to replace the Yoff airport :
- better accessibility for all regions outside the capital region, especially for important tourist regions as well as for the vegetable growing and fishing sectors;
- Eliminate the risks and mutual impairments of urbanization in the immediate vicinity of the current airport;
- Creation of an airport of international standard that corresponds to the geopolitical ambitions of the country and the capital and is in synergy with the business town planned for the Yoff location;
- to offer air traffic more security, service quality and expanded business areas;
- Make Senegal an aviation hub between continents;
- create the conditions to reach 1.5 million tourists per year in 2010;
- Development of exports in order to take on a leadership role in the regional airspace in the future;
- Creation of the necessary areas for the development of industrial activities for which Senegal has certain competitive advantages (handling, catering, aircraft maintenance, training centers, etc.).
The foundation stone was laid at the beginning of April 2007 in the presence of Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and Libyan President Muammar al-Gaddafi . Commissioning was postponed several times, opening dates in the second half of 2012, in November 2014 and in July 2015 could not be met. According to media reports, 85 percent of the construction work was completed in October 2015. When it became known in April 2016 that the two Turkish companies Limak and Summa had won the tender for the prefabricated construction and operation of the airport, only "over 70%" was reported. Construction work resumed in November 2016 and was completed in December 2017.
Originally, construction costs of 160 million euros were assumed. The long-term financing budget, which was approved in September 2011, comprised 265 billion francs CFA , the equivalent of 406 million euros. Together with the estimated construction costs around 566 million euros. Until the opening in December 2017, the construction cost 525 million euros.
Transport links
The airport can be reached via the toll route 1 from Dakar.
In December 2016, construction began on a standard-gauge branch line from the city center of Dakar to the new airport, 55 kilometers away. The opening was planned for the end of 2018. On January 14, 2019, a first section of the route between Dakar and Diamniadio , which was driven at 160 km / h , was put into operation, the rest of the route to the airport is to follow in 2020.
Namesake
The airport was named after Blaise Diagne , a Senegalese politician. In 1914 he was the first African to be elected to the French National Assembly.
Web links
- Airport data for DSS
- Blaise Diagne Airport aeronautical map on SkyVector.com
- Official airport website (French)
- African Development Bank: Summary of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment PDF file 0.684 MB on impacts on the environment and society, as of October 2010
- AIBD (Aéroport International Blaise DIAGNE): espérance d'un Sénégal émergent ( Memento of December 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (French, publication of the Senegalese government of December 4, 2017)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b AllAfrica of December 7, 2017: Senegal's New Airport Opens ( Memento of May 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Measure areas with google maps
- ↑ a b Airport Technology: Blaise Diagne International Airport (AIBD), commissioned December 2017
- ^ Diagnostic d'un contrat de partenariat public privé: l'Aéroport international Blaise Diagne de Diass
- ^ Governement du Sénégal: Construction d'un nouvel aéroport international pour remplacer l'actuel aéroport international ( Memento of July 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c "Seneweb September 19, 2011: L'Aeroport International Blaise Diagne opérationnel au second semestre de 2012 (ministre)" ( Memento of October 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sénégal: L'aéroport international Blaise Diagne livré en novembre ( Memento of July 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), afriquinfos.com, accessed on August 7, 2014.
- ↑ Construction de l'aéroport de DIASS: La lenteur des décaissements freine le décollage ( Memento from January 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), walf-groupe.com, accessed on December 1, 2014.
- ^ A Dakar, l'aéroport international Blaise-Diagne dans la tourmente , constructioncayola.com, October 15, 2015.
- ↑ Two Turkish companies win bid to complete construction of airport in Senegal. hurriyetdailynews.com, April 28, 2016, accessed December 18, 2016 .
- ^ Nouvel Aéroport International Blaise Diagne, Description du projet (as of December 2, 2011)
- ↑ Work starts on Dakar airport rail link. Railway Gazette, December 16, 2016, accessed March 21, 2017 .
- ↑ President of Senegal Dakar attends TER handover . In: International Railway Journal . tape 59 , no. 3 , 2019, ISSN 2161-7376 , p. 13 .
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