THE Department of Transportation (DoTr) said the construction of the new Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) terminal is 89% complete, and is set to open in June.

Godess Libiran, director of public information at DoTr, told reporters in a message that the agency and its private partner, the consortium of Megawide Construction Corp. and GMR Infrastructure Ltd., plan to open Terminal 2 in June.

The new terminal building in MCIA will have a capacity of about 13 million passengers annually, and will serve domestic and international operations.

Megawide-GMR won in 2014 the 25-year public private partnership (PPP) contract to build, operate and maintain the new MCIA terminal for some P17.52 billion.

In June 2017, the Megawide-GMR consortium submitted a P208-billion unsolicited proposal for the 50-year development of MCIA.

The consortium also bagged the contract for the construction of the Clark International Airport (CIA) new terminal project. — Patrizia Paola C. Marcelo

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